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Hungry Osprey in North Carolina

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While on our beach vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in early April I took full advantage of our location just off the beach. My favorite experience was on a day with really strong south winds. Terns, gulls, pelicans, gannets, and ducks all made their way past and all were digiscoped to within an inch of their lives.

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Mountain Swainson’s are the Best Swainson’s

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I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. The story is etched into my memory not for my experience with the bird, which was an obstructed view of a singing male through a mess of dense underbrush at about 100 feet, but for the effort it took to get there.

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Junco Mashup

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In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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Minks and more on the Outer Banks

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A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. This is my second ridiculous mink experience. Birding North Carolina Outer Banks' All in all a fun trip. I’ll be back to close out 200 soon.

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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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Kite Running

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Way down in the Florida they have the bizarre Snail Kite and the gorgeous Swallow-tailed Kite , both of which have made their way up as far north as North Carolina, though the former only once. We in the south are stuffed silly with kites. This is a bird that does not mess around.

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Twitching Solitaire En Masse

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If I want my children to be birders, or at least to appreciate birding, I need them to have good experiences doing it with me. But sometimes the stars align perfectly, as they did a couple weeks ago, in the form of North Carolina’s first record of Townsend’s Solitaire.