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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2014)

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Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bald Eagle that he watched (and photographed) hunting and eating a Blue-winged Teal at Viera Wetlands. For fortitude, I meditated on the Ring-billed Gulls that fly unfazed all around Rochester in any season; unfortunately, pondering common gulls might have made my mood even worse!

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of June 2014?

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Keep your eyes to the skies for hunting falcons ! Is it that time already, when a young birder’s fancy turns to, um, non-birds ? Indeed, those long hot stretches between migratory periods can try a bird watcher’s soul as surely as a cold, dark, birdless winter.

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Is It So Hard To Understand Why Birders and Wildlife Conservationists Don’t Buy the Duck Stamp?

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The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2014?

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Helen Hunt Jackson describes this delectable transition in a poem entitled, what else, September : By all these lovely tokens. September is a ‘tweener month, straddling two seasons and belonging entirely to neither. September days are here, With summer’s best of weather. And autumn’s best of cheer.

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The Duck Stamp and Lack of National Wildlife Refuge Funding

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Fishing accounted for 21 percent and hunting 7 percent. Coinciding with these figures is something we have suspected for a long time, the majority of Recreational Visitor Days are attributable to non-consumptive activities, followed by fishing activities and hunting activities. On March 5, 2014, the U.S. Case in point.

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January Birding – Getting the Year List Going

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But, like everyone else, my 2014 year list started at zero and I couldn’t wait to get it going! Get to my early morning birding destination while it was still dark, sit in the car with the radio on to prevent the inadvertent identification of a run-of-the-mill bird by voice, and wait for a Short-eared Owl to fly past on the hunt.

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of February 2014?

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The photo at the top of this post is from Adam’s awesome post on seeing a Snow Leopard hunt. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Birding February weekend'