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Field Notes: August 2013
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Friday, August 2, 2013. Ostrander Point Wind Farm. The full text of the decision is appended below. 13002 d1 Ostrander Point Ert Decision. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Ostrander Point Wind Farm. Lower Rio Grande Valley Birding Hotline. Lower Rio Grande Valley Rare Bird Alert - December 1, 2016. Butterfly Review for 2016. Mountain Bluebird and other notes from the field ♩ ♬ ♪. My experience with Leica Customer “Service”. 2016 Big Years Tours is in Louisiana.
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Field Notes: February 2015
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Sunday, February 15, 2015. Other Florida Specialties 2015. Here are some more feathered Floridians! Mottled Duck (rear) with feral Mallard (front). Update: after reviewing the timely article on eBird found here. The putative Mottled Duck above actually shows some indications of a mixed genealogy. In particular, the extensive streaking in the cheek together with the appearance of white edging in the tail feathers suggests some unknown degree of Mallard ancestry. The geographical range of the Limpkin inclu...
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Field Notes: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014. I have been assigned to Breeding Bird Survey Route 68-902 for the past five years, so I thought I would post a brief synopsis of the results over that time period. June 4 – June 27. Average # of species. Maximum # of species. Minimum # of species. Of species recorded exactly once. Of species recorded in all years. SSHA, BAEA, AMKE, MAWR. To search for vacant BBS routes check here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Lower Rio Grande Valley Birding Hotline.
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Field Notes: March 2015
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Saturday, March 7, 2015. Getting Out of Dodge. During our recent visit to Florida, we encountered a banded Piping Plover at Howard Park near Tarpon Springs. Hannah immediately recorded the colour band combination in her notebook, and later I was able to obtain a photograph. The upper left leg has a metal USGS numbered band. The lower left leg has an orange auxiliary band over a black band. The lower right leg has two green bands, and the upper right leg has a light blue "flag". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Field Notes: May 2014
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Saturday, May 17, 2014. A Pair of Jamaican Near-Endemics. Jamaica has 28 endemic bird species, but several more are range restricted to only one or a few other Caribbean islands. For example, Vervain Hummingbird ( Mellisuga minima. Is range restricted to Jamaica and the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Vervain Hummingbird has the distinction of being the second smallest bird in the world, being only slightly larger than its sister species the Bee Hummingbird ( Mellisuga helenae.
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Field Notes: Florida Shorebird Spectacular
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Sunday, February 8, 2015. We were in Florida again this winter and the shorebirding was particularly good. Here are some photo highlights. We had a sweep of the four regularly occurring North American "small belted plovers". Here are photos of three of them (quiz: what's the fourth? Willets were plentiful along the coastline and posed nicely for the camera. Robert, looks like you had a great trip to Florida. Im a little jealous of the Snowy Plover! Im yet to see that avian jem. Good Birding -DM. Robert, ...
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Field Notes: Trip Reports
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South Africa: Kruger to Cape Town - January 18 - February 10, 2013. Colorado Grouse - April 14 - 23, 2012. Israel: Birding in the Holy Land - March 16 - April 1, 2012. Arizona - July 30 - August 8, 2011. British Columbia and Washington - May 14 - 23, 2011. Trinidad and Tobago: Birding and Liming - February 11 - 21, 2011. Ecuador: Amazon and Andes - September 11 - 26, 2010. North Carolina: Honeymoon to the Outer Banks - May 15 - 24, 2010. Jamaica - August 15 - 23, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Field Notes: June 2014
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Saturday, June 14, 2014. The Wren House and a New Yard Herp. Dekay's Brownsnake (Storia dekayi). Hannah was seeing a Brownsnake in the garden a few mornings in a row, which is a new snake for our yard bringing the total number of snake species to two. Above is a distribution map from the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas. Showing that Dekay's Brownsnake is unevenly distributed within southern Ontario. I was only able to get one decent photo of a butterfly in Jamaica. Malachite ( Siproeta stelenes.
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Field Notes: The Wren House and a New Yard Herp
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Saturday, June 14, 2014. The Wren House and a New Yard Herp. Dekay's Brownsnake (Storia dekayi). Hannah was seeing a Brownsnake in the garden a few mornings in a row, which is a new snake for our yard bringing the total number of snake species to two. Above is a distribution map from the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas. Showing that Dekay's Brownsnake is unevenly distributed within southern Ontario. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Wren House and a New Yard Herp.
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Field Notes: August 2015
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Sunday, August 23, 2015. I spent some time at the western edge of Colorado where the landscape is very dry and the canyons are very deep. In addition to the scenery, there was an opportunity to search out some birds that are representative of the region, a few of which I hadn't seen before. Painted Wall, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. Independence Rock, Colorado National Monument. Sunday, August 16, 2015. The Black Swifts of Box Canyon Falls. Nesting Black Swifts tend to be difficult to obse...
