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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2020)

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If your neck is sore from being on a swivel this weekend, may I suggest swiveling with your hips to get through the rest of the month? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Springtime in Bonn

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Eurasian Green Woodpecker In other areas, the lawn was densely covered in daisies and I experimented a bit with photographing from low angles to make the daisies look even more dense. This abundance by no means meant theat they are easy to see, and I got quite a sore neck from peering into the canopy.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Here’s the kind of woman she is: when she got home after her first day of roller derby bootcamp, she was so sore she had to crawl up her stairs to get into a hot bath, where she cried for an hour. Read the book: it makes perfect sense.) ” Her book is both informative and fun, a good read.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A “I’d wish for rehabber-appreciative regulators who don’t think adding paperwork equals adding security,” wrote Louise in Oregon. Ten new serious, qualified, committed wildlife rehabber-wannabees to knock at the doors of all local licensed rehabbers!” wrote Heilke in Colorado.

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First Ever World Series of Birding Triathlon Part 3, Or, With a Whimper

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… The delicious mojito that I gulped down with lunch had sufficiently numbed my poor, sore butt enough that getting back on the bike caused no pain. Joining this story a bit late? Click here for part one. Click here for part two. If this means that I get my birder credentials revoked, well, so be it.

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Yellow-bellied, bird and birder

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For a long time my inability to find one of the most common members of the devious genus Empidonax was a sore spot with me. So my experience with this most vexing of passerines is limited, certainly compared to those birders around the Great Lakes who are up to their eyebrows in Empids of all shapes and sizes each and every year.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of May 2021)

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I have it on good authority that many of you have already ridden the roller coaster of this season’s migration madness and are now recovering from strained eyes, sore necks, and bloated lists. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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