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Birding Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware

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Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist traps that make visiting the shore such a delight. And then there were the birds that made me remember for sure that I was in Delaware and not in New York.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of May 2015)

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Corey is still enjoying a long Memorial Day weekend with his family in Delaware but wanted to share that his Best Bird of the Weekend thus far was a Chuck-Will’s-Widow calling in the predawn darkness at Cape Henlopen State Park. How about you?

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Birding from New York to North Carolina

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This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. Two years ago it was Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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

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The Red Knot’s lengthy paragraph is totally focused on the reasons for its population decline and why it’s important to conserve migration stopover sites like Delaware Bay. A map of Ontario is reproduced on the inside front covers and the Quick Index, a one-page listing of bird families, is on the back inside cover.

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Willow Ptarmigan in Jefferson County, New York!

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Saturday was out, as family plans had been made, but I had already been cleared by Daisy to bird most of the day on Sunday. We crossed the Delaware Water Gap, the Endless Mountains, the Southern Tier of New York, and then, as I pushed my Ford Focus to its limits, we crossed the law and the law won.

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New Jersey Birds and Beyond: A Brief Book Review

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For our family members and friends who are not obsessed with molt and migration, we need titles which sometimes take the form of “coffee-table books”. And then there are the activities we cram between our CBC duties, like buying holiday gifts. Mostly to other birders.

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The Unsung Hero of Denver Birding!

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He moved from Delaware to Colorado and then like a week later this bird shows up in Denver. But it is not just gulls that show up in surprise, but all bird families are represented with rarities in this park. I joked with my good friend, Jeff Gordon (ABA President ), of his luck. Most birders go a lifetime without seeing this species.

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