Sunday, March 11, 2018

Laura's Best Bird EVER! Chapter 3. Ludwig the Blue Jay

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(Some of this is reworked from earlier blog posts for my Best Bird EVER series.) In 1979, when I was birding in a park in Madison, Wis...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Favorite Bird #2: Jim Baker's Blue Jay

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This week we inaugurated a new, interactive feature on For the Birds, allowing listeners to call or send in a brief sound file saying wha...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Apple's Windows

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When I started working at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, I had to switch from a PC to a MacBook in order for my design files to be compa...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Favorite Bird #1: Lisa's Gray Jay

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For more than thirty years, since I started producing For the Birds , I’ve wanted to make it more genuinely interactive for listeners. H...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Laura's Best Bird EVER! Chapter 2. Black-capped Chickadee

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Yesterday I inaugurated my Best Bird EVER! ™ series talking about the very first Blue Jay I ever saw. Even though this is National Blue J...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Laura’s Best Bird EVER! ™ Chapter 1. Blue Jay

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When I was seven years old, during the summer before I started third grade, my family took a vacation in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, on Lak...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Olympic Gold and Duluth's Curling Club!

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All that glitters is not necessarily avian. Today the City of Duluth, the City of Superior, the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Ce...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Of Lifer Owls and Extraordinary Sporting Wins

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Just about three years ago, on March 20, 2015, I drove down to Chicago to pick up my new puppy, Pip. As I walked to the car from the bre...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Get a grip!

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Birdwatching is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get, but it’s certain to be sweet. That’s what I always say...