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Birding With Bobay: January 2015
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Friday, January 16, 2015. I don't really know what I was expecting the Quail-Dove chase to be like. I'm used to chasing rare ducks and shorebirds, where you basically just scope a field until you see the bird. This method usually doesn't take that long. It's pretty easy. This, however, is not. Golden Orb Trail, prime Quail-Dove habitat. Despite my mediocre and somewhat unsatisfying view of the bird, I left the park happy. Others had pored hours and hours into trying to see that bird. I was lucky.
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Birding With Bobay: May 2014
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The cloud forest - an ecosystem I've been fascinated by since I learned of its existence. These verdant, moss-covered forests can be found high in tropical mountains that are constantly blanketed by cool mists and clouds. These are hotbeds for biodiversity, filled with many endemic plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth. Our guide Samuel was definitely an expert, and it didn't take long for us to start spotting birds. A few Violet Sabrewings. The nature trails aroun...
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Birding With Bobay: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. At least I think that's what he said, I was too busy looking for Rough-legged Hawks while that song was playing on the car ride home. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Life through the lens. 2016 Wake County Big Year - 197 (Warbling Vireo). Total Life List: 748 (Sooty Tern). North Carolina List: 355 (Franklin's Gull). 2016 Year List: 495 (Bay-breasted Warblerl). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. The Cackles of a Young Birder.
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Birding With Bobay: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Enter the New Year. We'll start on January 2nd. My dad, along with my usual birding cohorts Sam and Edward, worked our way onto the Outer Banks to do a little winter birding. Dad recently bought a 4-wheel-drive vehicle, so we thought we could take it for a spin and do some beach-birding from the car. On the way down, I picked up my state lifer Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Nags Head. The real highlight of the trip, however, came on the next day....
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Birding With Bobay: Indiana
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013. A relative of the Cardinal and year bird #225. They get their funny name from their song, which sounds like "dick-dick-dick cissel-cissel-cissel.". Lightning storm over the corn fields. I was hoping to hear an Eastern Whip-poor-will, but didn't (nemesis bird? I still had two species I really wanted to find: Bell's Vireo. The rest of my family found the American Goldfinches to be quite interesting, and admittedly they are. Thistles were everywhere, and each plant had its own ...
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Birding With Bobay: November 2014
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Saturday, November 1, 2014. Big Bend: The Hunt for the Colima Warbler. The Colima Warbler is a Mexican species, plain and simple. Yet by some quirk of geography, geology, and climate, a few of these drab warblers breed in the United States. Where, you may ask? Mexican Jay in the low light, before the sun rose above the mountains. These were the most common bird along the Pinnacles Trail. But after some dedicated pishing I scrounged up my lifer Hutton's Vireo. Not long after my encounter with the Hutton's...
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Birding With Bobay: American Tree Sparrow
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. At least I think that's what he said, I was too busy looking for Rough-legged Hawks while that song was playing on the car ride home. January 22, 2015 at 6:12 PM. Its a pretty good sparrow, a 7/10 on the Sparrow scale. Like many others, that otherwise fine Bob Dylan song is ruined when he decides its a great idea to blast his harmonica straight into our ears as loudly as possible without attempting to play notes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life through the lens.
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Birding With Bobay: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Swimming off to the side of the goose flock. It was a lifer and my 300th bird in North Carolina. I finished the three-day trip with 16 lifers, including Gull-billed Tern. And this small goose - amazing for staying in my home state. I also had my first soul-satisfying view of a Northern Bobwhite. One waddled through the campground on our second night. This trip also allowed Dare County to soar to the second-place position on my obsessive county listing map. Wednesday, June 4, 2014.
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Birding With Bobay: September 2014
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Monday, September 22, 2014. Big Bend National Park - The Birder's Park. Subsequently, on the first morning, it didn't take long for me to spot my first lifer. Two Lesser Nighthawks. Were flying along the gravel road I was on. They perched in the tree, and I nabbed a few photos - the first nightjar species I've photographed! Lesser Nighthawks in the lower desert. A few other desert species began to make appearances, including a few western Red-tailed Hawks. And my lifer Pyrrhuloxia. A yellow headed Verdin.
