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Birding

Birding In Low Places

June 26, 2012 by Felonious Jive 13 Comments

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. Oh wait, it doesn’t....

Trips

A Different Kind of Spring

May 22, 2012 by Felonious Jive No Comments

Broad-winged Hawks are one of the most abundant northbound migrants at Swainson’s Hawk Bird Observatory, often with over 100,000 (and sometimes many more) being...

Birds

Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

April 24, 2012 by Felonious Jive 8 Comments

The subjects of love, sex and relationships have transfixed people for longer than we can possibly know. The many different ways people carry out...

Birds

Shedding Tears For Shorebirds

March 29, 2012 by Felonious Jive 10 Comments

Upland Sandpipers are one of the coolest and most awkward-looking of our continent’s birds. See, it’s not so scary! Photographed at Medicine Lake National...

Birds

If We Can Rock Together, We Can Flock Together

February 28, 2012 by Felonious Jive 6 Comments

Weird flocks are fun. One does not typically find a Black-crowned Night-Heron mixed in with Rock Pigeons and American Coots. I think the night-heron knows...

Trips

Showdown In Arroyo Grande: The Search For The Ivory Gull

January 24, 2012 by Felonious Jive 6 Comments

Today I shall weave a tale of dispair. A tale of jealousy. Of hopelessness. Of anger, fear, aggressioon….the dark side are they. Once you...

Birding

The Kids Are All Wrong

December 27, 2011 by Felonious Jive 9 Comments

Here we have a forlorn group of birders that clearly do not trust each other. Good December to you birders. I hope you are...

Birding

Don’t Go On Pelagic Trips. Ever.

November 22, 2011 by Felonious Jive 15 Comments

Red-tailed Tropicbird. “This clumsy, ungraceful bird was displeasing to observe” – Carol F. Pelagic trips. There is nothing in birding like a pelagic…you...

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