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Birdfreak, aka, Eddie Callaway
Birdfreak has lived all 26 years of his life in northern Illinois, Rockford to be exact. While most people don’t plan a vacation to northern Illinois (unless they go to Chicago), birding is surprisingly excellent in this area. Springtime is the best when warbles of Warblers come through along with other cool birds like Cuckoos, Thrushes, shorebirds, and more. One of the local birders has tallied over 300 species in our county (Winnebago).
Birdfreak enjoys hunting, with a camera that is, but is still an amateur photographer. Recently, he purchased a Canon Rebel XTi (or 400D). His previous camera (and still in use) is a Panasonic Lumix with 12x optical zoom. Nearly all the photos on this blog and on the Team’s Flickr account are taken with this camera. Although the ratio will start leaning towards the Canon.
Birdfreak loves writing and travel but my biggest desire is to promote birding and conservation. He graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Marketing.
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Veery
Veery - Jennifer Outcalt (Birdfreak’s sister), a 32-year old birder with a 10-yr old boy that is also into birding and quite excellent at spotting birds. Veery enjoys photgraphy too but claims to not be that good at it. However, she is super quick at spotting birds and is devoted to conservation.
Veery is majoring in Geography with an emphasis on Natural Environmental Systems at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Illinois. She helps me write many of the posts and brainstorm for new ideas about conservation.
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SnowyOwl
SnowyOwl - Susan Callaway (Birdfreak’s sister), a 30-year old birder with two nature-loving girls, BlueJay and Roseate Spoonbill. She is a superb writer with an English degree from Northern Illinois University and is currently working towards her masters. SnowyOwl also writes and/or edits many of the posts and other projects going on.
SnowyOwl is an excellent editor but alas, does not have the time to edit everything posted. If you find a grammatical error or typo, it can not be attributed to her.
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Kingfisher
Kingfisher - Dakota (Birdfreak’s nephew) is a bird and baseball nut. This year he hit the big ten-year-old milestone and celebrated with a big five day campout. His birding skills are improving with amazing speed and he has tons of hiking energy. He was a great help when we posted about the Brood XIII Cicadas being chomped on by birds.
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Dad (Grandpa)
Here’s Dad to Birdfreak, Veery, and SnowyOwl; Grandpa to Kingfisher. He is currently hard at work training a very crazy doberman, Arizona, and birding in his first wonderful year of retirement. Birding can be difficult with a doberman at times, but all the more fun. Dad has been to all 48 contiguous state in the US as well as Germany, South Korea, and Japan. Lucky birder!
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The Team has three wonderful dog: Socks, a mix of German Shepherd, Blue Heeler, and who knows what, Max our Golden Retriever, and Arizona, our Doberman mix. We also have one cat, Cujo, who is part dog.
In Remembrance…
The Team’s beloved Doberman, Baby
The Team’s beloved Labrador, Spot
The Team’s beloved “mutt”, Joker.
The Team’s beloved Irish Setter, Shamrock
Last updated: September 3, 2007
