Saturday, December 29, 2007

Sapsucker Woods--here I come!

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Wow--tomorrow I'm headed for the Isabella Christmas Bird Count, I'll spend part of New Year's Eve at my mother-in-law's in P...
Friday, December 28, 2007

BIGBY map--are YOU on it?

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View Larger Map Sign up to do a Big Green Big Year!

Mute Swans all over again

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Today's New York Times has an article by Thomas Kaplan wherein ignorance and sentimentalism trump science and the environment. The Nobl...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

Why birds and birders don't do drugs

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One of my alert friends sent me an essay from the October 5 Guardian Unlimited : It can conjure up a mood for sex, and might just curb the n...

Don't forget to BIGBY!!

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Just 5 more days till we can start Bigbying! The BIGBY ("Big Green Big Year") is a new kind of "Big Year." Richard Gr...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

How Earth Angel Bird Identification Binoculars Saved Christmas

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I produced this segment, How Earth Angel Bird Identification Binoculars Saved Christmas , in 1999, with my son Joe (Rudolph) and his friends...

"In the Age of Noah"

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Thomas L. Friedman has a splendid column in today's New York Times: In the Age of Noah . I'm surprised more people don't refer ...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

As Cars Hit More Animals...

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Today's New York Times includes this story: As Cars Hit More Animals, Toll Rises . 101 Ways to Help Birds includes this: #60: Drive at...

How the Raven Saved Christmas

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How the Raven Saved Christmas
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Force of Nature!!!

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Guess who was named the AP Celebrity of the Year , and even called by one of the judges "a force of nature." And when the writers...