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beginning to bird: June 2014
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Friday, June 20, 2014. Almost time for National Moth Week! And boy, is the mothing heating up around here! Just in time for NMW2014, I'm starting to get some real moths out in the yard. Temperatures have warmed into the 70s and sometimes 80s in the day, and it's as warm as the 60s at night- which has brought out the moths! The last two nights I've gone out, I've been putting my sheet on the front of the house (perpendicular to the street) instead of on the shed out back, and WOW- moth city! I know I tend...
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beginning to bird: May 2014
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Return to Moth Mania, Maine-style! It's been an entirely different experience mothing here in Maine, as opposed to the salad days of mothing in Central PA. For some reason, I just haven't had the success here that I had in PA, but I keep trying! I then did a little more reading online and found a mention of "self-ballasting MV bulbs"- NOW they tell me! I've tried the new lamp three times. Here's the sheet on the first night:. Still, I have had a few moments:. Of course, there were ...
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beginning to bird: December 2012
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Sunday, December 30, 2012. Mountain Bluebird, Badlands National Monument, South Dakota. I saw a facebook update on someone's "year in birds" and realized I hadn't really done any tallying of how 2012 went for me bird-wise. When I did do a tally (thank you, eBird), I was pretty darned impressed! Bronzed Cowbird, near Donna, Texas. Northern Hawk Owl, near Fryeburg, Maine. Here are my numbers:. North America (USA) Lifelist total: 371 (updated after a counting error). 2012 total birds: 282. I had no idea!
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Birding on Broadmeade: Red-shouldered Hawk Nestlings
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. Only one was visible when I pointed my camera at them, and here are my photos:. The nestling was panting, with its tongue stuck out. If this bird thinks it's hot now, he or she is in for a long summer! Dragonflies are also coming back! I was happy to see several newly returned Common Green Darners foraging in the air. Here's a particularly colorful male that I was able to photograph when it perched:. Here's my complete bird list. And here are a few more photos. Bird of the Day.
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beginning to bird: March 2013
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Sunday, March 31, 2013. Birding in the Big Bend, Day 1, en route to the Davis Mountains. Scenic view north of Fort Davis. I've just returned from a week and a couple of days in Texas: my annual Texas birding trip! This time, however, I chose not to go to the Rio Grande Valley, but I did stay close to that river. My sister Mary and I spent five days in the Big Bend of Texas! Fame does NOT hang out). We saw three CLGRs on the lake, along with an Osprey, several generic gulls, and this mystery gull:. I coul...
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beginning to bird: November 2013
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Friday, November 29, 2013. We've been having quite the irruptive year for Snowy Owls here on the east coast, and a bunch here in Maine. After going into a food coma yesterday and missing out on my Thanksgiving Day birding, AB and I went down to the shore near the Biddeford Pool (about an hour away) to look for a Snowy that had been seen there last week. We went out to the shoreline at the end of Orcutt Road:. Once I got to the rocks, I set up my little scope, focused, and BAM:. Sunday, November 24, 2013.
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beginning to bird: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Yes, folks, I got a lifer today, and it was a GULL! After careful study and a tip from a local birder about the presence of a Glaucous Gull over in Bath (conveniently enough, where I am working! I was able to score a lifer gull! Can you spot it (despite my lame digi-binned images)? Hint: he's near the bottom of the frame! I don't blame you - it's the crappy photo. How about NOW? Here he is, flapping his pale pale brownish wings! Never mind that guy to the left - look at him!
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beginning to bird: Return to Moth Mania, Maine-style!
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Return to Moth Mania, Maine-style! It's been an entirely different experience mothing here in Maine, as opposed to the salad days of mothing in Central PA. For some reason, I just haven't had the success here that I had in PA, but I keep trying! I then did a little more reading online and found a mention of "self-ballasting MV bulbs"- NOW they tell me! I've tried the new lamp three times. Here's the sheet on the first night:. Still, I have had a few moments:. Of course, there were ...
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beginning to bird: September 2013
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Sunday, September 22, 2013. If you're a friend on Facebook, you know that I finally went on a pelagic trip. I was so confident that I would see tons of birds, a whale or two. And I wouldn't get sick! I was going to take Dramamine or Bonine, AND I was gonna wear some of those Sea Bands. It was all going to be fantastic, and I was going to see lots and lots of lifers! Amazing birds I couldn't see on shore, birds that all look alike but are different! So I did see a few lifers:. Of my sick sacks. I wish I c...
