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Dipping a Green-tailed Towhee in Rhode Island

By • February 4, 2011 • 9 comments

I have only maybe ever seen one Green-tailed Towhee.  It was back at the end of 2005, the year that I had started birding.  I was at Meadows Park in Temecula, California, and the newness of all of the birds was kind of overwhelming and lifers were all around me.  I wrote down Green-tailed Towhee [...]

First Attempt at Digiscoping

By • August 3, 2008 • No comments yet

After the fun-filled factory tour and roundtable discussion at Swarovski headquarters the whole bird-blogging bunch of us headed out to Beavertail State Park for some light birding.  Some of us, including me, tried our hand at digiscoping with equipment provided by Swarovski.  While it was rather easy to get images, getting good images is a [...]