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Birding in Cape Town: Table Mountain and Lions Head
GetBirding | December 21st 2009
One of Cape Town’s greatest attractions is that it is located on the boundary of the Table Mountain National Park - in fact the park is surrounded by Cape Town! The city centre is located in a bowl flanked by Table Mountain to the south, Lio read more
Solstice dawn
Search and Serendipity: A Birder's Blog | December 21st 2009
VICKSBURG, MISS. — Awake before sunrise on the shortest day of the year, I slipped out onto my deck as a chilly dawn broke. Carolina Wrens and Tufted Titmice were singing already. Canada Geese dithered in the cool blue half-light. And the read more
Mongolian Plover at Geelbek hide, West Coast National Park, South…
GetBirding | December 21st 2009
Geelbek hide at Langebaan lagoon has been quiet on the rare wader front this summer, bar a Redshank and Mongolian Plover that have been putting in the odd appearance. I was lucky enough to catch-up with the Mongolian a few weeks ago. Initially th read more
Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of December 2009)
Charlie's Bird Blog | December 21st 2009
How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! The best bird of my weekend was undoubtedly the Red-tailed Hawk that took an American Crow right outside my window. Wicked! Corey found favor with the normal Forest read more
Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of December 2009)
10,000 Birds | December 21st 2009
How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! The best bird of my weekend was undoubtedly the Red-tailed Hawk that took an American Crow right outside my window. Wicked! Corey found favor with the normal Forest read more
Vicksburg CBC: Exciting waterbirds abound
Search and Serendipity: A Birder's Blog | December 20th 2009
VICKSBURG, MISS. — Yesterday, Bruce Reid, Blaine Elliott, and I birded a small but very productive section of the Vicksburg Christmas Bird Count circle. We were joined at various times by John and Len Carpenter and by The Vicksburg Post’s read more
Eagles of Brackendale
Tyler Ingram dot Com | December 19th 2009 by Tyler
Okay, I’ll try and keep the text short for this post and just show you the photos I took while Robyn, myself and her mum went over to Brackendale (which is in Squamish, BC). Eagles came and went on this little sand bar around the bend of the read more
Birding in Panama
Birding Binoculars Review | December 19th 2009 by Douglas Carpenter
Technorati Tags: Birding, Panama read more
Best Birds of 2000-2009
A DC Birding Blog | December 19th 2009
Some other bloggers are doing lists of their favorite bird sightings from the past ten years, so I suppose I might as well make one too. Since I have been birding for less than a full decade, this list is compressed towards the latter half of the las read more
2010 Purple Martin Season ALMOST Here!
MyPurpleMartinBlog | December 18th 2009 by s halpin
We are entering the weeks where the first arriving purple martin sightings are made. Though only a few birds trickle in at first, these few birds serve the great purpose of getting us off our rear ends and away from all the holiday food and out in th read more
Photograph: Juvenile Bald Eagle
Russ Campbell's Photo Blog: The Way I See It | December 18th 2009 by Russ Campbell
One of the most regal birds in Ontario is the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). The photo below is of a youngster who does not yet have his white head. these birds are making a comeback in my area—north-west corner of Lake Ontario, and are a w read more
Birding at the West Coast National Park, Langebaan, South Africa
GetBirding | December 18th 2009
Wednesday, a public holiday in South Africa, was spent birding with mates in the West Coast National Park. Located on the southern leg of Langebaan lagoon, the park is without equal in South Africa when it comes to the number and variety of shoreb read more
What is the Shortest Day of the Year?
10,000 Birds | December 18th 2009
This year, Monday, 21 December, is the winter solstice, often known as the shortest day of the year, at least for those in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice in 2009 will feature nine hours and sixteen minutes of daylight in New York City read more
The Mallards Nest
fifth world arts | December 17th 2009 by Bill
Where and when Eric and I found the tattered remains of a broken Mallard’s nest and the exact details leading up to its grisly discovery remains today forever lost. As we were young boys at the time of the sad discovery, and on a grea read more
The Gross Anatomy of Binoculars
Adirondack Almanack | December 17th 2009 by Adirondack Almanack - New York History Blog
Birdwatching is one-third knowledge, one-third patience, and one-third having the right equipment. Carpenters have all the right tools for their line of work, woodcarvers have the sharpest tools, and doctors, well they BETTER have the right tools! Al read more
Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of December 2009?
10,000 Birds | December 17th 2009
The holidays are well and truly upon us. So, if you live anywhere near my latitude, is winter weather. The silver lining to these dark clouds packed with snow and sleet is that winter birds are close behind! What are you doing this weekend and will y read more
Birding Business: The Power of Blogging
Born Again Bird Watcher | December 17th 2009 by John Riutta
In the just released December 2009 issue of Birding Business magazine, along with articles by such notable birding writers as Sharon Stiteler, Sam Crowe, and Val Cunningham, readers will also find one of my own: “The Power of Blogging.” I read more
More raptor watching at Kirstenbosch
GetBirding | December 17th 2009
Some more time was spent raptor watching at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens this last Saturday. A decent number of raptors (for this area) were seen (8 individuals), but species were limited to Steppe Buzzard, Forest Buzzard and Black Sparrowhawk. read more
Night Board of Birding owl night vision
Night Vision Goggles | December 16th 2009 by Night Vision Goggles
Bird watching is a fun and relaxing, which can to different places and May, the survival techniques used by different species of birds nest and raise their young to watch night owl night vision, to find companionship and food, night owl night vision. read more
American Kestrel Photo
Russ Campbell's Photo Blog: The Way I See It | December 16th 2009 by Russ Campbell
The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) is a small falcon. It is sometimes (mistakenly) called a “Sparrow Hawk.” American Kestrels are widely distributed across the Americas, with their breeding range extending from Alaska, across northern Canada read more
The New Wingscapes Cameras Have Arrived!
Born Again Bird Watcher | December 16th 2009 by John Riutta
Christmas came a little early this year with the arrival of all three of the new Wingscapes cameras – the PlantCam, the Audubon BirdCam, and the BirdCam 2.0. Watch for examples of images and video recorded with these new cameras to be posted i read more
Stuck on you
Gallicissa...a birder in an endemic hotspot | December 16th 2009 by Amila Salgado
I photographed this Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile at Tissa few weeks ago. A close examination of the base of the beak - lower mandible to be precise, shows a few seeds sticking to it. Here's a close crop. Flowerpeckers mainly feed on fruit read more
Top 10 Birds of the Decade
Search and Serendipity: A Birder's Blog | December 15th 2009
Birds fascinate us. Beautiful, highly visible denizens of this planet, they tell us about the larger world, and they even reveal our own character and foibles as they go about their lives. And so, I think it’s only fitting that as we look back read more
Birding on Vancouver Island
fifth world arts | December 15th 2009 by Bill
There must be some tasty treats over in “Good Acre Pond” in Beacon Hill Park these days? A family of very secretive Ring neck ducks and a shy pair of Lesser Scaups (bluebill's) have been uncharacteristically friendly and approachable read more
Urban Eagles
Tyler Ingram dot Com | December 15th 2009 by Tyler
Have I ever mentioned how much I love living in the West End of Vancouver? The quaint residential area of Vancouver made up of older apartment buildings that border Stanley Park. I have the windows fully open so I can absorb as much Vitamin D as po read more
It’s Official: iBird Explorer Plus is a True Gem
Born Again Bird Watcher | December 15th 2009 by John Riutta
Those of us who use iBird Explorer Plus have often said that it is a real gem of an application. Now Macworld has made it official by bestowing upon the revolutionary iPhone / iPod Touch bird reference and identification application its App Gem Award read more
You Are Incomparable
Prairie Thistle Life | December 15th 2009 by Julie Pishny
Since you are like no otherbeing ever created sincethe beginning of time, you are incomparable.- Brenda UelandThe sun is shining today filling the world with light and a false sense of warmth. I gaze out the window as I am writing this to you watchi read more
Nest-building Altamira Oriole
Search and Serendipity: A Birder's Blog | December 14th 2009
VICKSBURG, MISS. — I’ve been going through 2009 photos and realized that I haven’t posted many photos from the trip Charley Burwick, Lisa Berger, and I did through the Rio Grande Valley in April. If it’s OK with you, I’l read more
Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Chal…
Birding Binoculars Review | December 14th 2009 by Douglas Carpenter
Technorati Tags: Birding, Challenges, Common, Identification, Identify, Mitch, Most, Reviewed, Waite, Yourself read more
Great Horned Owl
Russ Campbell's Photo Blog: The Way I See It | December 14th 2009 by Russ Campbell
This is the famous Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus), the tiger of the forest. This magnificent raptor sits haughtily atop the food chain in his forest environment—his only predator being man. read more
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