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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of August 2016)

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Basically, he’s too busy birding from Colorado to Idaho to write about birding! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Yet, in realms such as birding, the acts rarely overlap; if you are birding, you’re probably not writing about it, and vice versa.

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Camas and Cranes

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Highway 12, as it takes you from Montana into Idaho, has been the road to some of my greatest adventures during my time here. It also, if you turn off at the visitor’s center just over the Idaho border, takes you to Packer Meadow, a high damp sunlit clearing of some fifty acres, cut by a winding creek. Photos by James Nokes.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. The largest of the falcons, Cade often set Kumpan loose over the high desert of the Snake River country in Idaho, saying it gave him great pleasure to watch the Gyr climb.

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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

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Evidence notwithstanding, she was not credited with the sighting due to the earlier declaration of extinction, but she so strongly maintained she’d witnessed the close proximity of a male passenger that she wrote an essay called “The Last Passenger Pigeon” in which she described her experience.

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Car Birding: A Birder Litmus Test

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Indeed, can you truly experience the wonder of nature from the confines of a vehicle? This Swainson’s Hawk was photographed above a gas station in Idaho. Always, always, have binoculars and camera within reach when you are driving around on a birding trip.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. That was easily fixed by adding a post-Safari trip to Eastern South Africa, led by dashing Rockjumper guide Clayton Burne, to my itinerary.

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Birding’s Biggest Dips

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All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. For those that might not fully comprehend, the birding slang-term to “dip” or to “dip out on” a bird is to go looking for a particular species and not find it.

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