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Hotel Villa Maya, My Birding Paradise

March 9, 2008 by Mike 8 Comments

So there I was in Guatemala, where it’s cool to eat cookies before dawn. A murderer’s row of local and international scientists, conservationists, guides,...

Inspiration

Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird Came Down the Walk”

March 8, 2008 by Corey 28 Comments

Emily Dickinson is one of the first poets I can remember admiring. I’m not sure whether it was her near rhymes, her life story,...

I and the Bird

I and the Bird #70

March 7, 2008 by Mike No Comments

I’ve been on the road quite a bit lately, enjoying outstanding avifauna in the process. This gets one to thinking about how inextricably travel...

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Forest Park Birding (Again)

March 6, 2008 by Corey 3 Comments

This morning I woke up at the crack of dawn and was in Forest Park, binoculars and camera at the ready, when the first...

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Aves de Finca El Pilar

by Mike 4 Comments

So there I was in Guatemala, where the living is easy. Our motley crew of American, Guatemalan, and British birders abandoned the sweet pine...

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Birding Cerro Alux

March 5, 2008 by Mike 3 Comments

So there I was in Guatemala, where the people are good looking and the coffee is strong. The highlands birding of the previous evening...

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Forest Park, Queens, New York: My New Local Patch

March 2, 2008 by Corey 10 Comments

After a grueling ordeal yesterday, which involved loading the contents of my third floor, two-bedroom apartment in Albany into a ginormous U-haul truck, driving...

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