Sat.Dec 16, 2017 - Fri.Dec 22, 2017

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Red Warbler

10,000 Birds

I have had to wait a long time to write this post. Red Warblers , Cardellina rubra , are easy enough to find in their highland Mexican habitat, but getting usable photographs has eluded me before. I still can’t claim great shots, but I am worried that someone else will beat me to it, so here’s what I’ve got. The problem that I have not been able to adequately surmount is the bird’s preference for forested shade.

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Puppy Proofing Your Home: Everything You Should Know

4 The Love Of Animals

Puppies are arguably one of the cutest things on the planet, but they also come along with a great deal of intrigue that comes from a natural sense of curiosity and a sense of exploration.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of December 2017)

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With only a few weeks left before we turn the page on 2017, birders around the world have been burning their proverbial candles at both ends to observe as many birds as possible. Did you partake in any Christmas Bird Count excitement this weekend? I have to admit that I abstained from the CBC this year, prizing personal comfort over citizen science.

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Changing Career? 7 Ways To Make The Right Change First Time

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As we end one year and begin another, our minds can often be a whirlwind of possibilities and changes we want to make. Many of us focus on self-improvement and it can either go one of two ways. We either make promises and resolutions in the full knowledge it is what we want to do, or we subconsciously make these changes and efforts without really realising it was what we really wanted in the first place.

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Webinar & PDF Test

Speaker: Steve Romanco

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Winter Birding on Home Turf

10,000 Birds

Most of my blogs for 10000 Birds fall into the”trips” category. I go somewhere new, I’m excited about the experience, I write about it. But all birders know the value of your home turf, a.k.a. where you bird the most. Your home turf could be your yard, your neighborhood, your county, the place where you know a certain tree limb is popular for Brown-headed Nuthatches , a lamp-post that does double duty as Red-shouldered Hawk perch , or a mailbox known for hosting an annual Carol

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Great Spotted Woodpeckers and European Green Woodpeckers

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On our trip to the UK a few weeks ago we were privileged to encounter both the Great Spotted Woodpecker and the European Green Woodpecker once again, but this year we had much closer observations and we were able to photograph the birds. Our first encounter with a Great Spotted Woodpecker was just after we arrived in the UK and made a day trip to Potteric Carr Nature Reserve near Doncaster on September 30th.