February, 2018

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Budget Friendly Tips for Your New Rescue

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If you have decided to give a dog a second chance by rescuing them from a dog shelter or rescue group, good for you! Not only can you feel great about the choice you made to save a life, your.

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Week four: We wrap up our stay in the US.

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The end of this rather long road trip finds us here in Puyallup, Washington which is just south of Seattle. It seems like the farther the north we go, the colder, and wetter, and a whole lot snowier it gets! We pulled into the RV park next to the Washington State Fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon, and it promptly started snowing! Given the number of countries we will be visiting in the next few months, there are still quite a few logistics that need to be attended to before we can just jump on a

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Ten Years Gone

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Here are the posts from February 2008.

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Heat Storm Review

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We were provided with a Heat Storm heater in exchange for our honest review. All opinions are our own. You may be wondering why we would be reviewing a space heater on a pet blog, but we have a very.

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The Beauty of Tropical Birdiness in Arenal, Costa Rica

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“Birdiness” No, not an official word but, um, so what? Many birds sing local dialects, and human languages are dynamic, they can’t help but change, evolve over time. It’s what they do, otherwise, we might be speaking some long forgotten Homo sapiens root language. I wish I knew that one, then I could say that I know the original words, and I am adding “birdiness” to the original lexicon.

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A Brown-headed Nuthatch Tap-Tap-Tapping on My Car Mirror

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When I arrived at the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance office in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, a high-tempo, tap-tap-tapping immediately arrested my attention. Surrounded by pine forest in general, the pavement is bordered by a handful of shorter, swaying palm trees. Echoing squeaks sounded from beneath their shade, and as I watched, a diminutive bird launched himself from the safety of the palm fronds to attack an unsuspecting car’s side-view mirror below.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2018)

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Weekends are much like birds, in that some are more prosaic than others. Not all can be stunners or megas. Were we to ascribe to weekends the taxonomy of birds, our days would likely resemble our lists: for every resplendent songbird or wild raptor would be ten ordinary gulls or pigeons, interesting in their own rights but hardly worth raving about.

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Adoption; The Humane Choice

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It is the primary mission of every animal refuge to find a loving home for cats and dogs in desperate need of one. Could it be possible that your home is that loving home? Even a very comfortable shelter is.

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Stillwater Artisanal with Oliver Brewing Co.: Tuppence (Feed the Birds)

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Today is the exact midpoint of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. This means we’re also in the middle of prime feeder-watching season, and I suspect many of you have been busy filling up your backyard feeders for all the grateful little gangs of finches, chickadees, and jays. There are some birds looking to be fed on the label of this week’s beer, too, which is an excellent collaboration from Baltimore brewers Stillwater Artisanal and Olive

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I screamed: Ural Owl!

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I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping my eyes on the road. Fortunately, B. managed to see it, his largest owl ever. I had just a split-second glimpse of this species – my only second ever – yet immediately knew what is it, but I was driving through a snowbound countryside and had another car behind me, therefore I stopped a good 50 metres later to eBird it.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

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I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard , taking place two days from now. Together with African Kori Bustard (which I observed on a camping trip in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve), this is the heaviest flying bird in the world. Males often reach weight of 18 kg (40 lb), standing height of more than a metre (105 cm–3 ft 5 in) and wingspan of more than two and a half metres (2.7 m–8 ft 10 in).

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Summer Tanager at the University of West Florida

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Three evenings a week, I trek exactly 51 minutes from my house or 97 minutes from my office (depending on the day) to the University of West Florida campus in Pensacola for graduate classes in strategic communications. In 2018, I have set a goal of birding at least 15 minutes each and every day, which means I’m usually spending the last few moments of daylight before class wandering around the college buildings.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of February 2018)

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February may not last as long as other months, but much happens from a phenological perspective in just 28.25 days. Have you recognized how different your immediate surroundings are compared to the beginning of the month? All manner of spring species are turning up in the Finger Lakes region, but I’m still working on winter stragglers, which makes a self-found Iceland Gull my favorite of this weekend.

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Shorebirds and Sea Snakes

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Have you ever wondered what happens when a sea snake comes ashore and there are shorebirds present? Usually when a sea snake comes ashore it is not very well and unlikely to survive, but birds are partially curious and partially cautious! On this particular occasion the shorebird flock was mostly Greater Sand Plovers with a few Red-necked Stints among them.

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Golden-crowned Warbler

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This is a Golden-crowned Warbler , Basileuterus cucilivorus. It is a common bird of humid, lowland forest in Central and South America where it is usually found in the lower storey. It belongs to the Parulidae family, but along with the rest of the Basileuterus genus is non-migratory. The Rufous-capped Warbler, B. rufifrons occasionally strays to southern Texas or Arizona, but on the whole, they are seldom seen north of the border.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of February 2018?

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A bat flew over my house a few days ago. That sentence may sound like the beginning of a horror story, but this bat bade well, serving as a reminder to those of us in the frosty north that winter eventually ends. Another sure sign of spring turned up just the next morning in the form of two Common Grackles stalking my lawn. Make no mistake, areas like mine have plenty of cold and snow still in store for the next month or two.

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Anchorage Brewing Company: Whiteout Wit

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Here in Albany County, New York, we tied the statewide high temperature for February of 78° on Wednesday – and on the very next day, we had freezing temperatures and got about four inches of snow. Wacky weather notwithstanding, it seems we haven’t yet seen the last of winter, so after some momentary second-guessing, I’m back to feeling good about reviewing a beer called Whiteout now that we’re in for more flurries and chilly temperatures.

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Boston Brewing Company: Cold Snap

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This week’s beer is from the Boston Beer Company – a brand much better known by the name it shares with its flagship product, Sam Adams. Despite the brewery’s storied place in American craft beer history, as the second-largest independent brewery in the United States (after Yuengling), Sam Adams doesn’t always get much respect from beer snobs. It’s easy to dismiss the company as too big, too mainstream, too conservative – especially these days when the obscure and experimental nanobrewery down t

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2018?

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In the midst of intolerable or deplorable situations, we often fear that change will never come. Yet we need only look to the seasons to recognize that, just as one has well and truly settled in, we see the first glimmers of the next. For good or for ill, everything changes. If you look for signs of the next season this weekend, you’ll surely find them.

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Lovebirds in the Limelight

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In case you missed it, today’s Google Doodle managed to reference not only the current Winter Olympics in South Korea, but also the fact that it’s Valentine’s Day. The Doodle features two animated Grebes , amid a snowy landscape and Asian architecture, engaging in a beautiful, serene mating dance that Google’s explanation likens to the elegance of figure skaters.

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Week two, we enter the USA

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We have crossed back into the US for the first time, in over seven years, at least for a little while anyways. The transition has been a little bit tough, with a much larger amount of traffic, but much better highways to compensate for that. While we have a bit of a travel plan, finding sites to stay in that provide me access to good birding locations, things are always a bit flexible.

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The Traveling Birder

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In a recent post, Corey listed five things to do when it is too cold to go birding and one of those things is planning birding travel. Here in Portland, Oregon, it is more frequently too rainy rather than too cold to go birding, at least comfortably. Regardless, planning trips is one way to do something birding-related without getting cold or wet.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of February 2018)

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Birding during quiet periods can sometimes feel like you’re trying to make something out of nothing. Persevere and take heart in the knowledge that there is always something. All we have to do is find it. King Eiders appear sporadically in the Rochester area during the winter months, but, so far this season, I’ve been striking out on seeing one.

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Australasian Pipit

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Australasian Pipits – Anthus novaeseelandiae motacillidae are a very well camouflaged bird that like open grass areas and also can be found on Broome’s Sports Ovals at certain times of year. Although they are a widespread species they could easily be missed due to their dull colouring and the presence of many other more colourful birds.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of February 2018?

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As we approach mid-February, love–or at least endless commercials about it–is in the air. For lovebirds and bird lovers alike, this weekend offers as good an opportunity as ever to rededicate your passion and commitment while recalling what ignited your passion in the first place. Enjoy! My weekend promises to be burdened with both snow and work, which may dampen my ardor for birding, If I can find time, I still have a few targets on my winter list that necessitate driving along farm

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BarkFest on NatGeoWild

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The Olympics are going to have some four-legged competition this year, with Nat Geo WILD’s fourth annual BarkFest event kicking off the same night. For the first time, BarkFest will span an entire week, including coverage of the Westminster Kennel.

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Gray Jays in the Adirondacks

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I marked my forty-first spin around the sun on Friday and to celebrate we did a family three-day weekend in Saranac Lake, way up north in the Adirondacks. Our visit coincided with the opening of the annual Winter Carnival there and we enjoyed checking out the ice palace and the Saturday night fireworks. But the true highlight of the weekend in a weekend loaded with highlights was checking out the fluffy bundles of gray-and-white feathers, Perisoreus canadensis , the Gray Jay.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of February 2018)

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Well, they did it. Those Eagles you’re hearing everyone talk about right now aren’t the ones you typically seek while birding, but rather the ones from Philadelphia that just won Super Bowl LII. Whether you enjoyed the game (and commercials and halftime show) or not, you’ve got to love an opportunity to share your eagle trivia with the non-birding masses.

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What’s in a Name: Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks

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Alas for the naming of birds that it took place before anyone had the foresight to recognize that the Sharp-shinned Hawk should be called the Mini-Cooper. It would reflect not only a pun hilarious to me personally and birding dads everywhere, but the magnitude of the ID challenge presented by a glimpse of one of these accipiters in swift flight – akin to the Greater and Lesser Scaup or the Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher.

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Broome Golf Course birding

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Last week I introduced you to the new bird-watching hut at the Broome Poo Ponds and now I will let you know it is not just about the ponds, but the adjoining Broome Golf Course! The water that is recycled from the Broome Poo Ponds goes towards keeping the Broome Golf Course nice and green year round and not only is this an ideal situation for the people that play golf, but it is also ideal for numerous species of birds.

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