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Worst. Big Year. Ever.
I and the Bird #91 over at From the Faraway, Nearby ————– So, it’s over. Finally. The chasing, the worrying , the planning. I can put it all to bed. I was ready to.… more →
The Drinking Bird
The Big Year
gustines wrote 2 months ago: The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, by Mark Obmascik. Free Press (2005), 288 p … more →
Green birding
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Seabrooke wrote 9 months ago: For the past year I have been involved as a contributing editor with the Ontario Field Ornithologist … more →
Worst. Big Year. Ever.
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Nate wrote 10 months ago: I and the Bird #91 over at From the Faraway, Nearby ————– So, it … more →
The end times, pt 2
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Nate wrote 10 months ago: The next morning dawned clear, warm, and beautiful. As much as I would have liked to spend the whole … more →
The end times, pt 1
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Nate wrote 10 months ago: I went to the Outer Banks on the last week of the year stuck on 295 for the year. My dreams of break … more →
I Always Start A New Notepad When I'm Not Feeling My Best
storyofagirlnamedalex wrote 11 months ago: In a way, this blog is a bit like that. I’ve got so many notepads full of depressing and very … more →
Year End Special
diplowife wrote 11 months ago: 2008 was a big year for me. It was the year I finally get around to learning to sew. It was also the … more →
The mountain in winter.
Nate wrote 11 months ago: This post included in Birdstack’s Birds of the Solstice project. I had high hopes for this day … more →
Saltmarsh Stomp
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Nate wrote 11 months ago: One of the very first trips I made at the beginning of this Big Year was to Fort Fisher, a Civil War … more →
Needle - 0, Haystack - 1
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Nate wrote 11 months ago: I know exactly where two of my outstanding year birds are, where they always are. The precise locati … more →
Making a list...
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Nate wrote 11 months ago: I went birding out at Jordan Lake yesterday morning hoping to find one or both of two unusual ducks … more →
The Broad appeal
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Nate wrote 12 months ago: When a super rarity is reported, people get excited. When that super rarity happens to be a bird of … more →
NC Big Year 08: Fall Review
Nate wrote 12 months ago: If may have been feeling like winter for the last couple weeks in some parts of the nation, but now … more →
Specific Pacific
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Nate wrote 1 year ago: I’ve had some bad luck chasing rare birds this fall. Either the birds have split or they were … more →
The Big East-y
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Nate wrote 1 year ago: Following the annual Wings over Water bird festival on the Outer Banks, lots of good birds were repo … more →
My Kingbird Highway - ten car pile-up
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Nate wrote 1 year ago: About three weeks ago a Western Kingbird was reported at a game land in the eastern part of the stat … more →
When birding goes wrong
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Nate wrote 1 year ago: I’ve got a few nemesis birds. Those birds that, no matter how hard we try, we just seem to mis … more →
Stinkin' Lincoln's
Nate wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday was the last day of the North Carolina State Fair, a festival of farming and fried food th … more →
Sometimes you feel like a Duck
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Nate wrote 1 year ago: In June, when I last traveled to Sunset Beach in the extreme southeast corner of North Carolina, I d … more →
