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Birdchick After Dark: Great Blue Herons

For your amusement and maybe use headphones if you are watching this at work:

So…while playing around with the ATX in Florida, Non Birding Bill and I had a crazy spectacular thing happen. We were both filming herons. He was using his HD camera, I was using my ATX and Nikon V1. We both [...]

A Little Kleptoparasitism

The fun thing about Florida is you can see both American white pelicans and brown pelicans (the above bird). This bird was hanging out near a boat launch in Titusville. Some of the brown pelicans can be quite “tame” around there. And I’ve heard different theories that some brown pelicans learn to beg [...]

Dang Limpkin

Sometimes, I feel like birds are just toying with me. Birds are not the most cooperative photo objects. I am fully aware that when you are tracking down a bird with a spotting scope (or large camera lens) that a bird’s instinct is to wonder if the thing staring at it is trying to eat [...]

Don’t Be Afraid Of Your Delete Key

First. I have to say: Wow! THANK YOU!

It is amazeballs that what people have pledged so far! Holy crap! I had no idea what to expect donation wise for my Big Half Year, but I thought $1000 should be doable over 6 months, but I wasn’t sure. Well, here it’s the end of January and [...]

Big Half Year Florida Note

Currently winding up my Florida adventure and editing photos. I am still in Florida. Sunday ended up being a more adventurous travel day than I anticipated. It started with a leisurely beach walk then wandering into a naturist beach and was topped off with a flight attendant offering us an insane travel voucher with first [...]

Great Horned Owl Nesting In Planter

So, with all my crazy travels, it’s been tough to keep up with all my back emails. Boy, have I missed a whopper! Thank you, so, so much to Robbyn Spratt for sending this my way! Brace yourself, are you ready for this? Okay, here it goes:

There’s a great horned owl nesting in a [...]

Pelagic Birding Off The Florida Coast

NOTE: I just noticed on the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival that they have some items that attendees left behind. If you attended the festival, check it out.

My final day at the Space Coast Bird Festival in Florida involved a 12 hour pelagic birding trip with the Explorer Fishing Charters. Above is a [...]

Laughing Gulls

Heads up: I’m going to Guatemala at the end of February. Mike from 10,000 Birds and Patrick from Hawk Owl’s Nest should be there too. Since it sounds like internet access might be iffy while I’m there, Swarovski is going to help me hold a guest blog contest! More details are coming but if you [...]

The Gulls At Daytona Beach

I got to debut one of my favorite new birding shirts while at the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival. Can I say how much I love the shirts at Magnificent Frigatebird? I blogged about some of these shirts around the holidays. I love the sense of humor that the company has and I love [...]

More Birding Fun At Viera Wetlands

We take a small break from gulls to talk about a few other species.

I have a few more birds to share from our second field trip that we led to Viera Wetlands while at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. One of the funny things was after I got my lifer limpkin earlier [...]

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