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Merced County 2021 eBird Checklist #2 – Merced NWR
2021 Merced County Species-to-DateLife List = 178Year List = 76 After a delightful tour around the San Luis NWR – Waterfowl Tour Route, my next…
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The Quest Begins – 1/4/2021
THE FOCUS IS SETPart way through last year’s San Joaquin County Birding Push, I began to consider what I would focus on for 2021. The…
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When One Least Leads to Another
The Discovery It was 6:30 am and I found myself, once again, at the southern part of the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, west…
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The Annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC)
WHAT IS A CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT? The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually in the early…
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Are you a Birder or Bird Photographer?
I had the opportunity to sit and chat last week for an hour with a couple of bird photographers in southeast Arizona. We were seated…
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California’s Super Bloom 2019
Upon their return from a conference in Palm Springs, some of my colleagues shared how amazing the current wild flower bloom was. It so happened…
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Cassin’s Kingbirds, Lawrence’s Goldfinch and Avian Eponyms
HUNTING FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION The chase began, as they usually do, with a rare bird email report from ebird on 3/14 by Emilie Strauss about…
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A Visit from the Gray-mantled Gull of Kamchatka
In French, it is known as the Gray-mantled Gull, Goéland à manteau ardoisé. In Spanish, it is the Kamchatka Gull, Gaviota de Kamchatka. In English,…
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No Butts About it, Merced NWR is for the Birds
I decided that today was a great day to drive down to the Merced National Wildlife Refuge to see what was hanging around there. The…
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The Raven
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, …” This post was supposed to be about Short-eared Owls, not about the embodiment…