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Social Distancing

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But every Monday, when my weekend work peak has passed, I literally head for the hills, and recharge my batteries with a healthy dose of total solitude. Yes, I know that birding can be turned into a social experience of sorts, but it will still always involve lots of silence and stealth. And lots of birds, of course. No problem!

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Isolation, a.k.a. Business as Usual

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These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. We counted seven of these alluring birds while I killed my camera battery. Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. Once we arrived at a suitable (i.e.

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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. Yesterday evening I got home from the second Swarovski Skills Camp at Lake Neusiedl in the east of Austria. impressive for Central Europe.

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I Just Flew Back from the Spring Wings Festival …

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My camera battery is probably pretty tired, too, from taking shot after shot of natural beauty and avian charmers. So I’ll leave you with a few photos that will hopefully whet your appetite for my next wrap-up of what was an amazing experience. Birding by kayak can now come off my bucket list. …

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2012)

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No wonder folks are hoarding water and batteries! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I don’t know how things are in your part of the world, but in my geographic proximity, people are freaking out. They seems pretty pleased to be on the property themselves!

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Analogue vs. digital birding

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Yet, going through the pages of a book is an irreplaceable experience. Ben Lizdas commented somewhere how fascinated he is with optics: in this electronic era, the top-notch binoculars are true high-tech, yet they work without batteries. How about a notebook vs. eBird, Merlin or iNaturalist?

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Spotting scope review: Swarovski 25-60×65 STX

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At first, I made a few record shots, digiscoping through the Swarovski 25-60×65 STX with a hand-held mobile phone, until the battery went flat. Before I acquired my own Swarovski binoculars, I had the chance to test both ELs and CLs for months at a time and so, from my own experience I knew what level of quality this brand guarantees.

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