10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

Now, dont get me wrong, there have been some nice birds, and locations in between, but these two experiences are just so hard to put out of my mind. At Dunnet Head, we got to see a couple of Atlantic Puffins, a few Razorbills, some Guillemots and gulls. The show stopper was his Eagle-owl. Flying in formation. Mom and her baby.

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Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. And, not every photograph is perfect; in some cases, Read presents several versions of a specific bird to show how what happens when you use, say, a shallow depth of field, like in the two puffin photos below.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

I learned early and often when I moved to Colorado that a birder will have to up their physical ante to experience some of these birds. The huffin’ and puffin’ is always worth it in the end, however. Areas of mixed-coniferous and mixed-deciduous forests can yield the secretive Northern Pygmy-Owl.

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Colorado North Dakota Montana Owls 136

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 158