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After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. You can see the comments from both sides by scrolling down after the blog’s conclusion.
The month and this particular period is all the more auspicious for me and mine, as so many friends and families celebrate spring birthdays. My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species.
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.
The exploration of triads within the avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago has taken me through various families and species groups on this blog. This Cocoa Woodcreeper was hunting for a meal around a fallen tree and thankfully was eye level long enough for me to get a decent photo showing off its enchanting facial patterns.
I like Julie Zickefoose’s art , her writing , her blog , her blog posts here on 10,000 Birds , and, of course, I like birds. So a book about birds by Julie Zickefoose, featuring her writing and art, some of which has been featured in different forms on her blog, is guaranteed to be a hit with me. How could it not be?
I took my family on Sunday to explore a stretch of the flat but fancy Lehigh Valley Railroad Trail. They are a graceful tern and Corey appreciated watching it hunt, feed, and fly over the marshes. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
Though Corey originally picked a Field Sparrow at Edgemere Preserve (like the one pictured above) as his Best Bird of the Weekend, an afternoon outing with his family back to Edgemere Preserve so Desi could chase after crickets and grasshoppers led to his revised Best Bird of the Weekend, a fortuitous find. How about you?
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Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt. Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Share the details!
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I didn’t hang around, but took a few photos to capture the Tawny Frogmouth family that has once again bred close to home. I walked slowly around the tree and then left them to have a quiet day in the park before they go hunting at night. Tawny Frogmouth family. I won’t apologise for another Tawny Frogmouth blog!
By the time this blog post goes live Daisy, Desi, and I will be in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK International Airport waiting to board the plane that will whisk us across the country to the land of temperate rain forests, grunge music, overpriced coffee, and Seahawks. Daisy is excited because she loves travel and visiting new places.
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This may not sound like much, but it is really good compared to just a few decades ago, when hunting had significantly reduced its range and overall population. After all, many may have depended on the marshes to provide food for their families, and thus acted in self-defense when they eradicated the Purple Swamphens.
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But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. Corey spent the weekend camping in the northern Catskills Mountains and was extremely pleased to have a family of fledged Eastern Kingbirds in and around the campsite. Pretty swanky, right? How about you?
This post is picture-heavy because I think it is helpful to see everything, but the blog only supports small images, so larger versions (and even more photos) are on Flickr. Hunting is also prohibited in this area of the refuge. Most people arrive by car, but there is a bus stop nearby, and there is a short trail (perhaps.2
One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. Since the last time it was made fun of in my blog, the Marabu Stork has not gotten any prettier. ” (HBW). students comes in handy).
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If you don’t have a blog either give a 100-word description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 31 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 630 pixels across). She blogged about it here. Sound good? Though Clare K.
The hunt was on in earnest. This one was not an individual you’d mistake for a pure bird by any means, as it mostly resembled the Black-chinned side of the family in size and structure. Other gawked at the magenta-throated dazzler, but I only had eyes and ears for another. The last missing piece. My quarry was near.
I first saw it on Sharon’s Facebook page (well, actually her Birdchick blog page on Facebook, I’m not actually cool enough to be friends friends with her on Facebook), and saw that the location was given as being “Western shores of North Island&# which I took to mean somewhere around Taranaki, several hours to the north.
After all, job hunts can often be an arduous process – one which is more trial and error than the “scientific” approaches employed by corporate sales professionals. As such, you might want to include friends and family when putting your list together. Finally, don’t fail to sell yourself, as that is the purpose of a job hunt.
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My way of squeezing more blog posts out of my birding trips. Surprisingly, the chance of a nest being robbed is greater in the forest interior than close to the road, as three of the four predator species listed above (all except the magpie) prefer hunting there. Here are a few photos from the area.
Of course, being Christmas it is a time for travel, which means I often miss the season visiting family in Australia or the UK, or, as is happening this year, Borneo. Since I started this blog I’ve wanted to do a post on pohutukawa, or New Zealand Christmas tree, and every Christmas I have been away.
Given this Blog is 10,000 Birds I would like to share, over time, some of the 350 plus Sunshine Coast birds and my favourite birding locations plus some mammals and other critters of my greater area. We were also lucky enough to see a beautiful pair of Sacred Kingfishers hunting along the coastal edge. One is pictured below.
Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. But it seems that many societies have a version of this that is less dramatic.
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While the HBW describes the bulbul family as “often rather plain”, I find them usually quite attractive, though in an understated way that may not appeal to the flashiness-seeking HBW authors. It is kind of hard to find a reason to include a great song about same-sex marriage in a blog on Nabang birds.
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