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The Plover Nest: "State of the State Birds", or no I actually don't have this much time on my hands
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009. State of the State Birds", or no I actually don't have this much time on my hands. Ok, this is a complete repost from something I wrote for my livejournal back in 2006. Now that I have a birding blog it seemed right to revisit the idea. So without further ado here it is. Shouldn't a state bird reflect something interesting about the state? Getting it right the first time, the states that did a good job. 1 Oklahoma: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Ah here is a state that did i...
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The Plover Nest: An injured plover, an endangered species conundrum
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011. An injured plover, an endangered species conundrum. We were greeted by below zero winds coming off of Lake Michigan but soon spotted the plover, hiding behind the only bit of cover on the beach. Photo by Charles McKelvy. Charles McKelvy, who writies for a local northern Indiana, southwest Michigan newspaper called "The Beacher" tells the whole story here in good style. Http:/ www.thebeacher.com/pdf/2011/BeacherFeb03.pdf. 65279;We delivered him to a bird keeper from...The humanit...
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The Plover Nest: November 2012
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Great Lakes piping plover 2012 breeding season summary. A male Great Lakes Piping Plover defends its nest with a broken-wing display at Whitefish Point, MI. A Great Lakes Piping Plover shelters in some drift wood near its nest in Grand Marais, MI. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sightings near the Looking Glass River in Clinton County, MI. Oh, are birds migrating yet? Watching the raptor migration at Cardel, Veracruz; Mexico. Banding a Gray Catbird in Stillwater, OK.
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The Plover Nest: Mitchell's Satyr - a very rare butterfly indeed
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011. Mitchell's Satyr - a very rare butterfly indeed. As the piping plover field season comes to an end, I will hopefully have some time to resurrect my long dormant blog. To start what will hopefully be a late summer and fall filled with many nature adventures that I can share on "The Birding Life", I wanted to report on a short trip Nikki and I went on to look for one of Michigan's rarest species, the federally endangered Mitchell's Satyr Butterfly. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Plover Nest: August 2012
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Friday, August 24, 2012. The state bird of the hypothetical state of Superior? Superior is a northern land, filled with boreal and boreal-hardwood transitition forests, interspersed with myriad inland lakes, all tucked in cozily between the shores of the three mightiest Great Lakes. So what species to pick to represent such a landscape? So what to choose? Along with its designation the Evening Grosbeak has been the object of much discussion on the ABA blog. Through this, I learned that the first Even...
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The Plover Nest: June 2010
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Friday, June 11, 2010. Catching Up - Arizona part 1. It was something of a dream trip for me, and Nikki was enthusiastic as well because it is perhaps also the best place in the United States to view lizards! We stayed in the Sunnyflat Campground in Cave Creek Canyon, just a short drive from the famous South Fork birding area and only 5 or 6 miles up from Portal. The views from our campsite included the above photo and the following. At first it was a bit quiet expect for a noisy and curious family group...
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The Plover Nest: The state bird of the hypothetical state of Superior?
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Friday, August 24, 2012. The state bird of the hypothetical state of Superior? Superior is a northern land, filled with boreal and boreal-hardwood transitition forests, interspersed with myriad inland lakes, all tucked in cozily between the shores of the three mightiest Great Lakes. So what species to pick to represent such a landscape? So what to choose? Along with its designation the Evening Grosbeak has been the object of much discussion on the ABA blog. Through this, I learned that the first Even...
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The Plover Nest: Chasing Winter
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Monday, April 4, 2011. The next day we had one main goal. To get Nikki and Dustin their life Snowy Owl. Though they might be more common and easy to see than the other rare northern owls, you have to respect the utter awesomeness of a giant white owl. So anyway we started driving the roads around Rudyard, almost getting stuck in the wet/frozen roads a couple of different times but we were rewarded with this. One of my all time favorite birds! Quite the winter bird show! April 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM.
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The Plover Nest: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. For details of my then obsession of finding spruce grouse in the U.P! After I started working bird field jobs in some of the best parts of the U.P., I got to see lots and lots of spruce grouse and watch them displaying and see hens with chicks, but after a four and a half year stint in Oklahoma, I was pretty excited to see my old friend the fool hen again! Here are some more photos. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sightings near the Looking Glass River in Clinton County, MI.
