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Butler's Birds: Autumn Staples
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Monday, November 28, 2011. If you take enough pictures of a bird, eventually it'll have to blink! Generally they're much better about not blinking in pictures (especially compared to people! And in fact it's pretty cool when you can catch them in the act. Like many waterbirds, the Ring-Necked Duck has a transparent eyelid. I assume this lets them see underwater, to an extent, without overly exposing their eyes to the murk. By happy coincide...
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Butler's Birds: We Shall Flight Them on the Beaches!
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Sunday, April 27, 2014. We Shall Flight Them on the Beaches! It was the perfect time to see who was passing through and what all was going on where my waste, and others', ended up. This Western Sandpiper above is in-between boring and sexy pluamge. Not terrible, but not as good looking as some of the other Westerns around, like Flashdance Western Sandpiper below. Of course, the Killdeer population has once again doubled in size, and now the...
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Butler's Birds: 05/14/15
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Desert Birds for Dessert. With so much desert habitat here I know that ELOW and WESO are there, and I didn't tarry long into dark, but suffice it to say they're not as readily detectable as they are along the Salt River, which defeats the point of finding them closer to central Phoenix. What is. Readily detectable at the PMP is Gilded Flicker. Sometimes ATFLs look to their left as well, so here is a picture of that o...
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Butler's Birds: Yellow Birds of Pennsylvania
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Saturday, June 9, 2012. Yellow Birds of Pennsylvania. They're even more common in Pennsylvania, and here in the West Chester area they are much more brazen, much more conspicuous. Of course, they're Warblers, and Warblers seldom take it easy on photographers. But the opportunities are better and more numerous here. Finally I came away with a decent shot of a Yellow Warbler. The Warblers aren't the only yellow birds I've been enjoying lately...
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Butler's Birds: 05/07/15
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Binge Birding in the Santa Ritas. I mentioned some romping reckless birding a couple of weeks ago, where a lovely evening at a friend's house was followed by a drive down to the Santa Rita Mountains, an all-nighter sort of jaunt the likes of which would make cool cool college Butler cringe and think, "gross.". Lower Florida Canyon has a terrific mix of riparian vegetation and chaparral, where one can consistently see ...
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The Cackles of a Young Birder: Chirp Notes
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The Cackles of a Young Birder. June 11th, 2014 and Howell Woods. Swainson's Warbler( Limnothlypis swainsonii. Swainson's Warblers breed in canebrake, covering the ground in the picture above. In the mountains, they prefer thick rhododendron-mountain laurel. They breed in the southeast from the mountains of the Appalachian to bottomland forest and migrate to Jamaica, Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in the winter. Other Notes and Facts. Swainson's Warblers songs sound like So so, so, sweet-to-hear. Males ar...
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The Cackles of a Young Birder: Field Mark Diagrams!
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The Cackles of a Young Birder. Sunday, November 16, 2014. I made a diagram of field marks for Clay-colored Sparrow to help separate from Chipping Sparrows. I photographed this Clay-colored Sparrow on a recent trip to Wilmington. It was feeding in the grass beside the parking lot of the NC Aquarium. October 18th, 2014. (notice the new logo in the upper right corner? Also Juvenile Chipping Sparrows is another similar plumage similar looking to winter adult. Other diagrams of Chipping Sparrow diagrams.
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The Cackles of a Young Birder: March 2014
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The Cackles of a Young Birder. Sunday, March 9, 2014. Winter Birding on the OBX. Thank goodness" is what I thought as I stepped out of the van, a Saturday morning birding on the coast had finally arrived after a long week. We had birds to see and places to be! The whole group had amazing views from a close distance for a few minutes. It felt great to start the trip out with a view of an uncommon year bird I was not expecting to see. I did spot some wild Junior Curators, a very gregarious species. Another...
