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The Biggest Week in American Birding – 2013
January 24, 2013 | No comment
The dates are set for the Biggest Week in American Birding! Mark your calendars May 3rd – 12th, 2013 for a week of super expert birders, fun events, and warblers dripping off trees. The festival schedule will be published by the end of January and festival registration will open in mid February. Yellow-rumped Warbler Photo [...]
Maine 2012 – Bar Harbor, Maine
July 19, 2012 | 2 comments
All aboard the Friendship V for the Puffin and Whale Watch Tour in gorgeous Bar Harbor, Maine! Hours of fun in the Gulf of Maine searching for seals, eagles, porpoises, dolphins, offshore birds, lighthouses and North Atlantic Puffins…oh and whales! …well, no whales. BUT – worth it anyway. The Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. will [...]
Phriday Photo – 45th Parallel – Perry, Maine
July 13, 2012 | No comment
The 45th parallel seems to circle the globe (hah!) and of course we had to stop at this historical marker in Perry, Maine. It is the oldest Halfway North Marker. U.S. Coast Survey topographers Charles Meigs Bach and Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow surveyed the coastline in 1883 using an old surveying device called a plane table. [...]
Quoddy Head State Park – Maine 2012
July 11, 2012 | 1 comment
Some of the Birdfreaks (Jennie and Dakota from Ohio and Mom/Dad [Grandma/Grandpa] in Illinois) traveled to Maine this June. Birds, mammals, snapping turtles in the road mixed with a whole lot of natural wonders and history made this a memory-building experience! Quoddy Head means ‘fertile and beautiful place’ from the People of the Dawn (Passamaquoddy [...]
Maine 2012 – Field Ponds Audubon Center
July 3, 2012 | 2 comments
Some of the Birdfreaks (Jennie and Dakota from Ohio and Mom/Dad [Grandma/Grandpa] in Illinois) traveled to Maine this June. Birds, mammals, snapping turtles in the road mixed with a whole lot of natural wonders and history made this a memory-building experience! Maine’s Field Ponds Audubon Center is just outside of the Bangor-Brewer, Maine area. We [...]
Maine 2012 – History, Ospreys and Mountains
June 28, 2012 | 1 comment
Some of the Birdfreaks (Jennie and Dakota from Ohio and Mom/Dad [Grandma/Grandpa] in Illinois) traveled to Maine this June. Birds, mammals, snapping turtles in the road mixed with a whole lot of natural wonders and history made this a memory-building experience! The rest of the drive to Maine included driving around Lake Champlain, visiting the [...]
Maine 2012 – Traveling Through New York
June 26, 2012 | No comment
Some of the Birdfreaks (Jennie and Dakota from Ohio and Mom/Dad [Grandma/Grandpa] in Illinois) traveled to Maine this June. Birds, mammals, snapping turtles in the road mixed with a whole lot of natural wonders and history made this a memory-building experience! One of the first things we found was an awesome rest stop by Chautauqua [...]
“Kinda” Birding – Fort Worth, Texas
March 20, 2012 | No comment
I (Jennie) had the good fortune to be able to travel to Ft. Worth, Texas for some special work training last week. I quickly found out how hard it is to be somewhere “cool and different” for birding and have NO TIME TO BIRD! All was not lost. I found large numbers of Great-tailed Grackles [...]
