All right, it’s time to vote for your favorite entry in the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Challenge. As a reminder, each posted entry gets a Swarovski Binocular Cleaning Kit and the Grand Prize winner gets Swarovski Crystal Pocket Binoculars! Each person can vote for one (1) entry! If you want to reread the entries, you [ Read More ]
And welcome to day 10 of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. Sharon is winging her way back to the U.S. as I write this, with tons of photos and stories about her trip to Guatemala. Thanks to all our Guest bloggers for their great entries! Our entry for today comes from David McRee, whom [ Read More ]
Welcome back to the Swarovski Optik Blogging Contest entry! Just a few more entries to go! Today’s entry comes from Eric Brierley, past president of the San Antonio Audubon Society. He helped with a banding project for many years at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center in San Antonio, TX. Currently Eric birds and blogs from Austin, [ Read More ]
It’s day eight of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. Today’s entry comes from Jeffrey Gordon with a much-needed post for mid-winter: spring cleaning! For more of Jeff’s writing, you can visit his blog. I’m fortunate to live in Lewes, Delaware, which just happens to be the northermost place in the world you can see [ Read More ]
Welcome back to day seven! We’ve had quite a few entry about raptors so far, so now we’re going to switch things up and talk about one of my favorite kinds of birds: corvids. Today’s entrant is Stacey Wittig of the Vagabond Lulu blog, who helpfully included a bio! Stacey is a freelance writer based [ Read More ]
NBB here. Hope you all had a good weekend! We’re back today with an entry from a young birder named Holly, who documents a familiar feeling to all birders: getting nooged, as Sharon puts it. Hi! My name is Holly, I am 9 years old. Me and my dad, and my brother went looking for [ Read More ]
Welcome back for Day 5 of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. Sharon’s checked in from Guatemala and wants you to know how thrilled she is with both the quality of the entries and all your comments. Today’s guest Blogger is Jeff Fischer of Ecobirder. Every year as winter engulfs North America many birders make [ Read More ]
Welcome to Day 4 of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. We’ve had a lot of fun entries so far, and our next one is from Art Drauglis, and is about one of those truly remarkable encounters you can have in nature. Hawk vs. Turtle Shortly after I started up the Powell Mountain Trail in [ Read More ]
A tiny interruption from the contest. I just wanted to put in a video of my favorite part of Guatemala thus far. It’s the song of a brown-backed solitaire echoing through the mountains. The Spanish name for this bird is protector de la barranca which means “canyon guard”. It’s more of a siren song to [ Read More ]
And we’re back for Day 3 of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging shindig. Glad to see that you’re all enjoying it so far. Make sure to check out the blogs of our guest writers for more great entries. Our blogger today is Allison Shock of Three Star Owl blog. Vertical Napping Bark: it’s hard to [ Read More ]
