Friday, August 31, 2012

National Blue Jay Awareness Month draws to a close

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Today's full moon happens to be a Blue Moon--the second full moon of this month. That means this month is National Blue Jay Awareness ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Ludwig the Blue Jay: The Rest of the Story

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I As National Blue Jay Awareness Month draws to a close this week, I’ve been asked to tell the “rest of the story” about the...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Birding for the Soul: Blue Jays

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When I was a preschooler, my Grandpa gave me the “Little Golden Activity Book,” Bird Stamps. It had 18 pages, each w...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Birding for the Soul

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I recently read a tirade by yet another person complaining that conservationists and environmentalists prefer animals to h...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Evening Grosbeaks: how a wonderful bird touched my life

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On May 1, 1976, I saw my very first Evening Grosbeak—my lifer—on a Michigan Audubon field trip to Hartwick Pines State ...

Blast from the Past

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These are some of the features I've used for past April Fools Day and National Blue Jay Awareness Month programs on For the Birds (pro...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Proposed Drilling Project at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

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One of the greatest difficulties in being an environmentalist is trying to see both sides of an issue. Take energy conservation. Durin...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Steller's Jay: a Western blue jay

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Yesterday I announced that this is National Blue Jay Awareness Month, and immediately got an email complaining that I wasn’t making it...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

National Blue Jay Awareness Month begins today!

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Tonight there’s a full moon, and there will be a second full moon this month on August 31. This, according to most definitions, makes th...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Ulysses S. Grant: failed sportsman

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My favorite president, for all kinds of obscure reasons, is Ulysses S. Grant. His distinctions with regard to birding are fairly limited, ...