Holy Crap We Won! And Contest!
I'm blogging from the World Series of Birding Awards Breakfast. When I arrived with Amy and found Pete Dunne and my other teammate Clay, they said our digiscoping team (The Swarovski Digiscoping Hawks) won--our goal was to digiscope as many bird species as possible in one day. We won? In complete and utter shock I said "Get the heck out!" (Athough, substitute a more colorful metaphor in there).
The photos didn't have to be pretty but identifiable. So above is one of our photos that helped us win. What species of bird is this? First winning answer with a name attached in the comments section of this blog entry wins a Woodlink Hummingbird Feeder.
Don't worry, cool photos will be uploaded soon.
Meanwhile, our team is sharing a table with WildBird Zen Zugunruhe team (who won the Cape Island Division) and they would like me to tell you that their teammate Tait Johansson is dipping his bacon in catsup and teammate Matt Garvey is my favorite because he is keeping my coffee cup filled.
Also, I just learned that New Jersey is putting a moratorium on the harvesting of horseshoe crab eggs until the populations of both the crabs and shorebirds recover...go New Jersey birders!
The photos didn't have to be pretty but identifiable. So above is one of our photos that helped us win. What species of bird is this? First winning answer with a name attached in the comments section of this blog entry wins a Woodlink Hummingbird Feeder.Don't worry, cool photos will be uploaded soon.
Meanwhile, our team is sharing a table with WildBird Zen Zugunruhe team (who won the Cape Island Division) and they would like me to tell you that their teammate Tait Johansson is dipping his bacon in catsup and teammate Matt Garvey is my favorite because he is keeping my coffee cup filled.
Also, I just learned that New Jersey is putting a moratorium on the harvesting of horseshoe crab eggs until the populations of both the crabs and shorebirds recover...go New Jersey birders!
Labels: contest, digiscoping, Holy Crap
posted by birdchick at 9:02 AM
15 Comments:
I'm going to throw out the first vaguely likely yellow bird I turned to in my encyclopedia of North American birds.
A Prothonotary Warbler. :)
Nicki is going to win this one I think. I'll still guess though. Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler?
Congrats by the way!
Oriole
Hmm, all good guesses, it looks orange on my screen like the color of an oriole. No lack head though, I guess I"ll have to say Scarlet Tanager and hope my screen colors are off.
Is it a goldfinch?
Definitely looks like a prothonotary, but could be a blue-wing; however, both of those have been taken. I guess i will go with another small yellow warbler, although probably not one you would find:
Wilson's Warbler
~Kyle
I was going to say yellow warbler too. I've digiscoped many that look like that.
Congrats on the win!
Nicki got the id! Way to go Nicki!
Email me your snail mail and I'll send you a hummer feeder: sharon at birdchick dot com.
I'm currently partying at the Philly Airport while waiting for my flight back to the Twin Cities!
WHOOOOT!
Shut up!! You won?!!! How great is that! Congrats! No one deserves it more.
Kathy & Kodak
Well done! Can't wait for the pictures and the stories.
Congratulations!! :)
Congratulations on the win! I believe I heard a story on MPR about this event last year and it sounded like crazy fun. I really look forward to seeing more of the photos!
swoosh! congrats!
I'd have to say Prothonotary Warbler.
and congrats on the win. I used to go birding with some guys at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and man, they always left me in the dust. but it was fun :)
David
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