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Edison Bird Festival 2012 – Video

February 26, 2012

Featuring Chickens, a Great Horned Owl, American Kestrel, and an undisclosed number of Snow Geese!

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Edison Bird Festival – Photos

February 26, 2012

Edison Bird Festival, a set on Flickr. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the first annual Edison Bird Festival in Washington State. I’m already looking forward to next year!

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Friday Feathers: A Belted Kingfisher with plenty to say!

October 15, 2011

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Sunday Feathers – juvenile appearance is important!

July 24, 2011

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Friday Feathers – Video: A Red-winged Blackbird Display

June 10, 2011

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Birds and the city and Dad

June 4, 2011

Bus, ferry, bus, Skytrain, plane… And so my day started. At the crack of sparrow’s chirp. If everything went according to plan, I would be on a flight to Toronto before I’ve normally finished my first cup of coffee. Leaving the house, I was greeted by a massive crowd. Imagine waking up and finding yourself [...]

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A Bird in the Hand: Chickadee Videos

January 2, 2011

I just realized two things. 1. I hadn’t blogged here for a while and 2. I had not blogged a couple of little chickadee videos I put up on flickr. The first of these came about when I read Dena’s blog post about becoming a ‘proper’ birder. I’m not sure I want to set a [...]

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sun and blue skies – wow!

November 11, 2010

the birds were thrilled today, as we had one of those rare winter days where the murk and gloom disappeared and the sun came out to accompany a bright, cyan sky. it was lovely to hear their chirps, tweets and twitterings of bird-y happiness and the chickadees were particularly tuneful. may have heard a varied [...]

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Snow Geese Sunday | part two

October 23, 2010

A few more shots from Terra Nova last weekend, to accompany RightAntler’s original ‘Snow Geese Sunday’ post. although they were coming in to land, just one bird had one leg down good night!

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Snow Geese Sunday

October 18, 2010

Back in 2003 I read a splendid little book called The Snow Geese by William Fiennes. At the time we were living thousands of miles from where the story was based, the migratory journey of the Snow Geese. Every year they complete an incredible journey between South America and the Arctic tundra. Six years later [...]

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