10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2021

Once I was fully vaccinated and air travel became an option, I looked for a location for my first birding trip since 2019. I settled on Wisconsin, which is home to one of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding that I have not visited: Horicon NWR. So my criteria were as much about birding locations as they were about birds.

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Wisconsin LACS Milwaukee Birds 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2011

Check out this (mislabeled) video of a hawk in Miller Park , home of the Milwaukee Brewers, much to the dismay of the resident pigeons. What do you think it is? It looks like a Cooper’s Hawk to me.

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Milwaukee 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Beer has become famously associated with particular cities in history – Munich, London, Dublin, Pilsen, Milwaukee – in ways that no wine ever has. That isn’t to say that all are welcome: the wine industry expends a great deal of money and effort every year in keeping birds and other hungry pests away from its vines.

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2014 Milwaukee California Industry 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

Find your State Bird. I previously wrote a post entitled “Plugging Kids into Birding” in which I presented 10 ways to get kids into birding. Lots of great birding tips for kids in this book! If your child wants to get into birding, he/she can volunteer at a bird observatory.

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Milwaukee Mongolia Camels Oklahoma 249

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Forgive me for a momentary lapse from relatively straightforward bird-blogging. Once they squeaked into the playoffs the Cardinals won a tough series with the highly powered and highly favored Philadelphia Phillies and then managed to knock off a divisional rival, the Milwaukee Brewers, in six games to clinch the pennant.

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