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So Will and I had spoken on Sunday and agreed to go owling on Tuesday night. We had both failed at checking off Eastern Screech-Owl or Great Horned Owl on our New York lists this year so we figured we’d take a shot at tracking down either silent nocturnal killer.
Before Will picked me up [...]

Ah, grace… Amazing, isn’t it, and sweet sounding too! Grace, defined as elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action, is a quality found in no short supply among the feathered flyers of this world. By these, I mean birds, of course, not angels. But it’s natural that some might think of heaven when [...]

I’ve made it to Texas. Yee-haw! The first thing I noticed as I touched down at DFW was how pretty the grounds are, at least for an international airport. Striking emerald swathes of short grass separating runways are actually broad enough to harbor birds, which explains why, in addition to expected species like Great-tailed Grackle [...]

After reading Mike’s post on Long-eared Owls at Croton Point Park a couple of weeks ago I was eager to get there for a shot at seeing the owls that have repeatedly eluded me.
These owls were supposed to be steady, having roosted in the same stand of pines in autumn and winter for at least [...]

Have we got a new North American bird species here? As Greg says, “How cool is that?”

An interesting discussion regarding blogging, compensation, and success is roiling around the blogosphere, or at least those portions of this vast, virtual landscape where strivers and scriveners contemplate the metagame. Call it introspection, solipsism, or simple curiosity, but blogging always has and always will be one of the most blogged-about topics, at least in the [...]

After our trip to Queens to bring Daisy back to school was put off by a day we decided that the best move would be to drive straight to Steph and Sean’s place (Daisy’s sister and sister’s boyfriend) in northeastern New Jersey. They, despite not being bird-nerds, had suggested a birdwatching trip on a [...]

This weekend was a bittersweet one for me. March 17 holds a special significance for the Core Team. While the rest of the world, or at least the portions looking for a good reason to drink and ingest food best eaten drunk, celebrates St. Patrick’s Day on this auspicious date, we honor Masemas, the birthday [...]

So my Friday vacation day birding plans were prevented by a Nor’easter.  What can you do?  Daisy and I had planned to drive down to NYC, stopping for a shot at Long-eared Owls along the way.  Instead we dilly-dallied and decided against driving when the storm that dumped a foot-and-a-half of the fluffy stuff started.
So we took the [...]

Readers of my recent disquisition of the color buff may have been surprised to learn of so many terms for yellow-brown in the English language. Equally astonishing, you may agree, is the abundance of options for describing brownish-yellow. But linguistic specificity allows for clarity of expression. Why say “happy” when you’re actually feeling blissful, [...]