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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of September 2021)

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Most of the breeders seemed to have departed already on their journeys south but he did enjoy a Barred Owl serenade in the wee hours of the morning two days in a row so the Barred Owl wins as his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of June 2020)

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But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we? Near as I can tell, that horrific “huahhh” was coming from a Barred Owl apparently as confused about its evening’s itinerary as I was. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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I’m to the point that I wish all the Snowy Owls in the US this winter would head back north. There’s been some confusing info because Project SNOWStorm also captured and put a transmitter on a first winter female Snowy Owl around the same time in the same area. Many get their birds from breeders. Go home now!”

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* Boreal Owl, p.

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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How to Start Bird Watching So That You Keep Bird Watching

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You’ll enjoy your earliest experiences of birding best if you allow the pros to do the heavy lifting for you: Let them find the birds and, more important, identify the birds for you. Only the ignorant expects to hit a hole in one first time out on the links or to throw all strikes as a beginner bowler.

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Quintas das Arcas: Bicudo Vinho Verde (2017)

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I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America. I remember the talking (Song?)

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