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Birding Berrien and Beyond: Bigby big green big year
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Showing posts with label Bigby big green big year. Showing posts with label Bigby big green big year. Monday, December 8, 2008. End of the Bigby? What could be possible? Pics today were from the New Buffalo harbor. Labels: Bigby big green big year. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Today's pics are from the berry trees in the cul-de-sac in front of the house. Waxwings and robins were swarming, but not being very cooperative about holding still:. Labels: Bigby big green big year. Tuesday, October 21, 2008.
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Belize, part 8. Aside from a boat trip we took in Crooked Tree, this was the only time when we had a guide. Ramon, one of the managers, would do a walk before breakfast and one before dinner with whoever wanted to go along. My first toucan (a keel-billed) teed up nicely (this was back in the digi-scoping days). Butterflies were more active, this is (probably) a Ruddy Daggerwing. We went back out with Ramon in the late afternoon to drive down a road where sometimes he saw Orna...
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: Sayonara September
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013. We were most of the way to Klock when we started catching up to this bird. It's a juvenile Western Sandpiper. Transitioning to winter plumage, this bird is marked as a juvenile by having small pale edged wing coverts and scaps. The bird seemed to prefer looking for the brine flies (? That were washed up at wave's edge, though would follow a group of sanderlings as well that would sometimes forage all the way to the grass practically. It made a pretty close pass when it flew ...
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: Corkscrew passerines
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Friday, April 24, 2015. We took the kids on a walk at the Corkscrew Audubon boardwalk through the largest remaining stand of mature cypress. It was during the dry season and after guaranteeing the kids they'd see alligators I was starting to sweat it a little. Finally at the end of the 1.5 mile loop we came to an area with water that had a few gators. A female popped up a few minutes later. Even at midday there were other passerines about. An Ovenbird of all things was walking around under the feeders.
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: May 2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015. What are you lookin at? Shutter clicks are close enough to a White-eyed Vireo's. Call that they sometimes show a decent amount of interest in the camera. The unrelenting north winds of late April and early May really put a crimp on the mainly southern passerines. Outside of this bird and the Kesling Yellow-throated's I struck out entirely on the rarer southern warblers and tanager. This Blue-winged seemed territorial on a day with bright overcast, useful light for midday. A (somewha...
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: Rainy day shorebirds
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Thursday, May 7, 2015. A couple days ago rain pretty much socked in much of southern Michigan just as south winds had started to kick in for a few days. I walked from Tiscornia to Jean Klock (in the rain) hoping to find shorebirds that had decided to wait out the rain. There were none. So I was a little surprised when Rhoda found 20 Willets sitting in the New Buffalo Harbor. They were a mix of winter and breeding feathers. Proof of 20 (probably a county spring high count). This time a Franklins. SeEtta M...
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: March 2015
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Saturday, March 28, 2015. Costa Rica . the End. We spent our last morning of the trip on the grounds of the Trapp hotel very close to the airport. As was the case last year, Cinnamon Hummingbird was the highlight. It was around the 20th species of hummingbird for the trip. House Wren on the other hand wasn't new, though it was the first time I photographed one. I think we totaled around 275 species although certainly no one saw all of them. Some, such as Sunbittern. Labels: Costa Rica birds. We birded an...
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: August 2014
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Thursday, August 21, 2014. Who wants to go to Costa Rica? I was a little late getting word about this winter's CR trip out so a lot of people already had made plans . which means I have a couple spots left on an 8 person trip for Jan 25 - Feb 2. So the question you have to ask yourself, would you like to see a quetzal? How about half a dozen species of highland hummingbird? Along with a bunch of other birds endemic to the Chiriquí highlands only found in Eastern Costa Rica or Western Panama? Work schedul...
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Birding Berrien and Beyond: a Florida bird ... in Michigan!
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Monday, May 4, 2015. A Florida bird . in Michigan! I've been waiting for migration to finally catch up with the blog. It's been slow going. I had hoped to transition back to the county last week, but better late than never I suppose. This is a phone-scoped shot. A pierwalker resolved any doubts though as the bird took flight. The primary pattern is solidly laughing; Franklin's Gull. Would have much less black in the primaries and an extra layer of white proximal to the black on the wing feathers. Mike Yi...
