Birdchick

Alvaro Jaramillo one of the field trip leaders at the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival speaks on learning to love watchin’ the larids (aka gulls):

Before I went to Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I listed all the field trips that I would be on and one of them was a gull id workshop at at Tomoka Landfill. See all the gulls in the above photo, that landfill was jam packed with birds! I had a bit of a  [ Read More ]

It’s Skywatch Friday! You can create a blog post with a photo of sky and then link on over to their site and share in the magic. The above photo is from the pelagic birding trip offered at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. We were heading out on the boat to see some  [ Read More ]

Here’s another one of those crazy bird volunteer jobs: VOLUNTEER–NatureFiji-MareqetiViti is looking for a volunteer to work on its Fiji Petrel project. One of the world’s rarest and most enigmatic seabirds, the nesting burrow of the Fiji Petrel on Gau Island has never yet been found. We are looking for an independent, experienced volunteer to  [ Read More ]

I got this link from BirdFreak via Twitter. This was filmed in the Twin Cities, don’t know how I missed it. My favorite quote from the trucker: “Maybe if more people had a duck in their life, we wouldn’t be so mad at each other.”

Okay, this post was meant to be about a field trip to a landfill to see gulls and a few other species at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival but I did not realize how many turkey vulture shots I took at the landfill. I never get this close to them where I live  [ Read More ]

I’m trying to corral my photos to use in a future post about birding in a Florida landfill (I tell ya’ that Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival takes you to some highfalutin places). Here is a video that I took with my Fuji E900 attached to my Swarovski spotting scope just to give you  [ Read More ]

Here is a video of the mythical snipe probing the wet earth for food:

When you go birding in Florida, frost is not what you expect to have to deal with. Before I headed to Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I was sent emails regarding the weather. I noticed that the lows were in the thirties with highs in the 50s, but after dealing with -21, I figured  [ Read More ]

Hey, want to learn how to digiscope refine your digiscoping techniques? Ibis and egrets may not be on hand, but other cool birds like eagles should be around. On Saturday, January 31st at 10AM I will do a digiscoping workshop at the Great River Road Learning Center in Prescott, WI (just across the border from  [ Read More ]