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 promote other areas of conservation as well. 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.

31 Cool Bird Facts #23 – Sedge Wren

October 23, 2008
Article in: Birding

Sedge Wren - Photo #4,000

The Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis) is a spunky little brown species with a chattery call. This year, our luck finding these guys was touch and go. One explanation might be that they are very nomadic and never stay put for long. We also found out from our local bird experts that they will move south and have a second brood, eliminating our confusion on why we found Sedge Wrens at Deer Run Forest Preserve later in the season than expected.

The Sedge Wren used to be called the Short-billed Marsh Wren and has had other nicknames such as meadow wren and grass wren. The Sedge Wren was our 4000th photo on flickr and also one of our focus birds for a citizen science project involving our local bird club.

Sedge Wren

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Sedge Wren – Our 4,000th Photo on Flickr

August 22, 2008
Article in: Photography

This Sedge Wren is unofficially our 4,000th photo uploaded to Flickr.

Sedge Wren - Photo #4,000
Sedge Wren taken on August 16th at Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin
Canon Rebel XTi, 400mm

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