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The Jodrey State Fish Pier at Gloucester Harbor is one of my favorite places to bird in winter.  Visiting the pier each of the last three winters before, during, and after the Superbowl of Birding has been a great pleasure and the views I have had of a variety of species have been breathtaking.  If [...]

This past Saturday the Bloggerhead Kingbirds once again, for the third consecutive year, participated in the Superbowl of Birding.  Our third attempt netted us more species and points than ever before but we finished out of the money, with not a single award being won by our team.  None of us even managed to win [...]

This morning, after we Bloggerhead Kingbirds competed at the Superbowl of Birding all day Saturday (more on that later), we made our way to the Gloucester fishing pier (in Essex County, Massachusetts) and into a gull-conundrum.  You see, a couple of other birders, Tim and Brian, had a gull and it wasn’t just any gull. [...]

After spending the whole morning and into the early afternoon of Election Day birding our way from Ferd’s Bog to Ausable Point State Park, Will and I turned south along the lake shore to see what there was to see. We were not disappointed. Our first stop, after our required refueling at a Stewart’s along [...]