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The Core Team’s excursion this weekend was a soggy slog through Constitution Marsh in Cold Spring, NY. Although the weather report promised that the heavy cloud cover over NYC would burn off quickly, we didn’t consider that conditions might be different 55 miles to the north. But the clouds persisted, thickened, and finally burst [...]

I received a disturbing e-mail from a reader last week:
I came across something today that might be of interest to you and your group.
I’m a researcher. I came across an individual who spends his days trying to figure ways to torture, poison, kill and otherwise harm wildlife, including birds. This is his “research” which is [...]

In the mid-1980’s I went on a birdwatching trip to India and Nepal with two friends. In ten weeks we saw over 400 species. Some sightings have long since faded from memory, but one bird we did see that still burns brightly in my mind’s eye we found in a protected forest reserve about half-way [...]

The whole team visited the New York Botanical Garden this afternoon. Our primary objective was their Wednesday Farmer’s Market, not nearly as impressive as it used to be. While we were there, however, we had to take in at least some of the flora and fauna. Few flowers were blooming this fine August day, nor [...]

I’ve been so busy actually watching birds that I neglected my second anniversary of writing about watching birds. August 11 was our blogoversary!
The last year has been quite productive for the Core Team. We spotted 71 brand new birds and loads of familiar ones. We also visited some fantastic locales, including Washington State, Puerto Rico, [...]

Perhaps I’ve become jaded by Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, one of the premiere birding spots on the east coast of North America. While waiting for the rest of the Core Team to return from their rural retreat, I dropped in on Jamaica Bay for brief spot of bird watching. My destination was the oft-ignored East [...]

I and the Bird #5: 01 September 2005. Hosted by John at A DC Birding Blog
 

Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Australia
12 August 2005
 

 
We’re in Melbourne, Australia today, and I managed just a few hours birding in between heavy rain showers…

Sadly our crew lay-over in Melbourne doesn’t really give me enough time to hire a car [...]

My breakfast bird walk earlier in the week was so enjoyable that I decided to take my show on the road for another one this morning. Today, I visited Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, a large public space with a string of large ponds. Water makes summer birding more interesting, but I was still on [...]

I went out for an early morning walk at Lenoir. The woods were oddly quiet. Though I expected a couple of warblers, I spotted not a one. Interesting birds for the morning included House Wren, Carolina Wren, Hairy Woodpecker, Brown-headed Cowbird, and lots of Wild Turkey.

Wild Turkey
I also spotted lots of white-tail fawns, some with [...]

A common misinterpretation of the devastatingly elegant Heisenberg uncertainty principle is that that observation of an event or phenomenon changes that event or phenomenon. This rendition of the uncertainty principle is no doubt popular because it (a) dispenses with the quantum physics gibberish and (b) has the ring of truth. The mere act of observation [...]