Thursday, March 19, 2015

Training a good birding dog

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March 20, 2015 is the day I drive to Chicago to pick up my new puppy. Pip is a brown and white Havana Silk Dog—a little foo-foo dog with...

The Swallows of Capistrano

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Cliff Swallows According to the Catholic Church calendar, March 19 is the Feast Day of St. Joseph. It also happens to mark the day when ...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Gifts from Birds and Other Internet Stories

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Every day, people send me bird stories, pictures, and videos they’ve seen on the Internet. One kind irritates me—videos, invariably set to...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Fishicles

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Photo copyright 2015 by Kelly Preheim This winter has been colder than average over much of the Great Lakes—the ice cover over the Gre...

One could do worse than be a watcher of birds

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(Part of this was worked over from a blog post from my Conservation Big Year .) Three weeks ago, I had a mild heart attack. I reali...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

New Beginnings

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Black-capped Chickadee: #1 on my life list, first seen March 2, 1975 March 2, 2015, was the fortieth anniversary of my becoming a birder...
Monday, March 2, 2015

"The Dress" and bird colors

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"The Dress." The center photo is the version that went viral.  On the left and right are how that photo appears when "corre...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Red Slough birding festival

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I keynoted at this great festival in 2013. Best looks EVER at Swainson's Warblers!

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

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Pine Siskin 2015 is one of the magical years when lots of us are seeing gregarious winter finches that spend most of their lives in the ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

How did you spend your Friday the Thirteenth and Valentine's Day?

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(rewritten for my radio show script Feb. 16) I managed to find a unique way to combine both bad luck and the heart to mark this year'...