Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we are working to promote other areas of conservation. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Phriday Photo – Brown Creeper Closeup

January 23, 2009
Article in: Photography

Brown Creepers are a bit of a pain to photograph. They mock the camera with perfect camouflage and just when you have them in focus, they let out a shrill sound and zip to another hiding spot.
Brown Creeper

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Crypt of Creepers

November 18, 2008
Article in: Birding

A murder of crows, a parliament of owls, a colony of gulls, a raft of ducks…but what would you call a collection of Brown Creepers? Over the weekend we had a fun (but cold) outing with our local bird club and while the bird diversity was a bit low, the birds we saw were enjoyable.

For starters, we found what we identified as an “Oregon” race of Dark-eyed Junco. This photo was taken by Dakota who was briefly borrowing the camera to practice on feeder birds.

Oregon Junco

Then, we found a large gathering of Brown Creepers in the woods. There were about six or seven of these birds in a group, which according to Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion, rarely number in more than six at a time. It was something that no one in our group had witnessed before. So, due to their cryptic coloration, we decided to call this a Crypt of Creepers.

Brown Creeper
Brown Creeper

Lastly, we found this strange looking Canada Goose which we were unsure if it was some sort of hybrid or just some sort of color aberration with a long scientific sounding name that essentially means “oddly colored”.

Odd Canada Goose

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CNP Update: More Spring Arrivals

April 17, 2008
Article in: Birding

Spring is still springing, and we finally hit 70 degrees at the CNP. We have had a few new species since last Thursday.

Hermit Thrush – a new spring arrival
Hermit Thrush

The yard has been so wet, a couple of Mallards landed nearby, not a usual visitor to the CNP. More rain (goodbye 70-degree-day) is predicted for this weekend too.

The Chipping Sparrows have arrived, adding to the Dark-eyed Junco trills. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet made a short appearance, but has not stuck around.

The Robins love the wet yard
American Robin

It’s been a few months since we’ve seen a Brown Creeper and Friday Dakota found one after school. Not new for the year, but a fun find nonetheless.

New as of Friday April 11, 2008

  1. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  2. Hermit Thrush
  3. Chipping Sparrow
  4. Mallard
  5. Brown-headed Cowbird

We eagerly await more birds and wildflowers at the CNP! (Although we’ll be busy doing bird counts when migration really hits :)

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