I’m going to Guatemala in a couple of weeks and I’m told that between the rigorous itinerary and the uncertainty of Internet access, I need some help covering the blog. So what do you do when you are the sole writer of a blog and you need some time off? I’ve used a guest blogger, [ Read More ]
This just came into the Inbox and seems like a worthwhile contest. It’s a drawing to win a trip to Australia wrapped in a promotion for a the new Nikon EDG binocular: Nikon® Inc., in conjunction with Australia’s Northern Territory and Discover Downunder® proudly announce the “Nikon Downunder” Sweepstakes, offering the chance to win the [ Read More ]
Okay, so the deadline is creeping up in two days, but if you happen to have any cool photos of a National Park (and the wonders therein), you might want to enter it in the Share The Experience Photo Contest. The winner gets their photo on the National Park Annual Pass and various and other [ Read More ]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology has started the Celebrate Urban Birds website. They want to see your photo, drawing, or video of a Little Green Space that’s good for birds (remember the bald eagle nest that’s in a Minneapolis neighborhood across from the airport?). Have you noticed a spot that birds like because it provides shelter, [ Read More ]
UPDATE: Just an FYI. I started to enter this contest and then I noticed that you have to submit your images high resolution on Flickr. That makes it kind of easy for someone to take your high resolution image, print it out and do whatever. Calling all photographers and digiscopers: In honor of the federal [ Read More ]
Okay, Other Sharon, you are not allowed to answer this contest for 24 hours . Everyone else, here is the photo, can you identify the actor sitting next to me (I’m willing to bet that about 90% of blog readers have seen one of his films): Put your answer in the comments section of the [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
What bird species is flying away in this photo? The first winning answer wins a Woodlink Hummingbird Feeder. Leave your answer in the comments section. The first winning answer that includes a name gets the feeder. You don’t have to have a blogger id, but you must leave a name with your answer to win. [ Read More ]
Let’s face it, most of us are at home the day before Thanksgiving or if we are at a job we are barely functioning because so many people are out on vacation. Who can concentrate? For readers of the blog who are not living in the United States, Thursday is Thanksgiving where many of us [ Read More ]
