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My Old Stomping Grounds

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On Tuesday, my wife and I travelled 1750 miles (2,800 km) from our home of thirty years in Morelia, to the region in which I grew up, the San Mateo Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. But this one was a wonderful experience. But will I bird?

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Shearwaters from Shore

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Before I moved north to Portland, I lived in San Francisco. The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. I just happened to be there to experience it. Of course, unexpected experiences such as this are one of the great appeals of birding. There is satisfaction in the everyday.

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You Can Go Your Own Way

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Last week I wrote about my first experience with a new site that a friend thought looked promising when he saw it on Google Maps. This experience of finding an entirely new, but very birdy, site is nothing unusual for me. I have had much better experiences with the nature reserves located around the edges of Morelia.

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The Traveling Birder

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I am a westerner who has lived in San Francisco and Portland my entire birding life. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR.

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A Gathering at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. I have put together a video to help you feel the experience I was a privy to on this beautiful fall morning at the refuge.

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ALF Activists Glue Locks of U Cal Primate Researcher

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From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.

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A Great Ornithologist’s Plea: Scale Back The Playback

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It was a very pleasant experience. Not because I think the birds will be traumatized by the experience, but because I just don’t want that experience to be my experience. This Rufous-capped Warbler was seen and photographed without the aid of playback. Florida Canyon, AZ. 7) had a blog post that got me thinking.