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Autumn Birdwatching in Alabama

Birding Binoculars - Birdwatching Binoculars - Bird Binocula… | November 17th 2009 by Donna P Bessken

Autumn is my favorite time for hiking. Today came close to being absolutely heavenly! Magnificent weather. Muted yet soft leaf color giving the hills an amber-rust overall appearance.  Just enough gentle gusts of wind to send waves of colorful leave read more

Bequest benefits warblers of all sorts

Don't Mess With Taxes | November 11th 2009 by Kay

As a long-time birder and a bit of an opera buff, I got a kick out of the story that a U.K. woman who shared my interests had left most of her sizable fortune to New York's Metropolitan Opera and a British nature charity. Even better, there read more

WTF: Big Bear Doin Thangs

Turntabling | November 11th 2009 by Harry the Bastard

Rap once again snatches the bad album cover artwork spotlight away from born-again warblers, heavy metal lunkheads, and singer/songwriters. What a misguided pile of conceptual sludge this cover is! Let’s start with the idea that this guy̵ read more

Lover of Birds and Opera Leaves Millions to Both

Feigon Hamilton | November 10th 2009 by Feigon Hamilton

By DANIEL J. WAKIN  New York Times Mona Webster, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived in Edinburgh and died in August at 96, had a love of birds, and warblers in particular — of the human kind. She demonstrated that affection by leaving most read more

10/11 CR Challenger

AIM MBA | November 9th 2009 by Arshad

Every fall Croton's jays migrate south. The jays always join flocks of migrating crookbeaks with which they share the summer and winter territories. If a jay becomes separated from the crookbeaks it is accompanying, it wanders until it comes across a read more

Quite a Sight!

S E Texas Birding & Wildlife Watching | November 4th 2009 by Jeff

.Yesterday, as I was getting into my car to leave the college, a male Northern Harrier circled over me for several minutes. What a beautiful sight! But, of course, I didn't have my camera with me. Doh! Will I never learn?I didn't make the same mistak read more

Some Autumn Migrants

Charlie's Bird Blog | November 4th 2009

This fall was surprisingly great in Queens in terms of the fall foliage.  Brilliant yellows competed with rich reds for the eye’s attention and when a migrating bird paused in front of such colors, well, one could barely help but to gasp with read more

Long eared owls killed by seeds

The Owl box | October 29th 2009 by Quin

Ok, so maybe the seeds aren't actively killing the Long eared owls (LEOs) as my post title might suggest but they are dying as a result of seeds. I came across a very interesting article in the Bird Watcher’s Digest that details some strange danger read more

Park of the Labyrinth in Horta, Barcelona

HotelSearch.com Blog | October 29th 2009

The Parque del Laberinto de Horta (Park of the Labyrinth in Horta) in Barcelona has been the setting for film scenes, dramatic performances, concerts and a multitude of other cultural events. Yet it is also considered a unique place in the Ciudad Co read more

AUTUMN TURNS THROUGH STRATIFIED WARS

New Verse News, The | October 28th 2009

by Scot Siegel A few little leaves alight on the sleeper windlemon, iron-orange, vermilionbut there’s no dive-swiping gnat-catching tonightSome song birds sense the slack-season upon usstillness readies the river, trees glimmerand we lean uneasily read more

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