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A Great Ornithologist’s Plea: Scale Back The Playback

October 2, 2014 by Felonious Jive 10 Comments

This Rufous-capped Warbler was seen and photographed without the aid of playback. It was a very pleasant experience. Florida Canyon, AZ. Not long...

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of September 2014)

September 29, 2014 by Mike 2 Comments

Now that autumn has fallen, my part of the world feels like summer. Hopefully, October offers more of the same! My best birds this...

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Berry Springs Nature Reserve and Darwin River Dam

September 28, 2014 by Clare M 8 Comments

Or I could rename this post…..CROCODILES and SNAKES! Last Saturday we were able to visit Berry Springs Nature Reserve late in the afternoon, which...

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of September 2014?

September 26, 2014 by Mike No Comments

Late September affords birders in the Northern Hemispheres some of our most glorious weekends. That plenty of birds are in the midst of migration certainly...

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2014-2015 Winter Finch Forecast

September 22, 2014 by Corey No Comments

Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated...

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2014)

by Mike 4 Comments

James Russell Lowell famously wondered, “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days…” Of course, he...

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2014?

September 18, 2014 by Mike 2 Comments

September is a ‘tweener month, straddling two seasons and belonging entirely to neither. Helen Hunt Jackson describes this delectable transition in a poem entitled, what else, September:...