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.

Skywatch Friday – Yellow-rumped Warbler Against the Dreary Sky

February 27, 2009
Article in: Photography

Yellow-rumped Warbler

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Skywatch Friday – Bald Eagle

January 9, 2009
Article in: Photography

Bald Eagle in Ogle County, Illinois
Bald Eagle

Happy Skywatch Friday!

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Phriday Photo – Out in the Snow

December 5, 2008
Article in: Photography

Horned Lark
Horned Lark

Opossum
Opossum

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Phriday Photo – Eastern Bluebird and the Sunrise

November 14, 2008
Article in: Photography

Everyone have a grand weekend!! We have a lot of projects in the works plus a NCIOS field trip so this looks to be a busy weekend.

Eastern Bluebird – digiscoped
Eastern Bluebird

Our Skywatch Friday submission is a morning scene in northern Illinois (in HDR)
Sunrise in Illinois

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Screeing Red-tailed Hawk [Skywatch Friday]

October 23, 2008
Article in: Photography

This week’s Skywatch is a Red-tailed Hawk that was busy making his presence known. Gotta love their screeeeee!!

Red-tailed Hawk

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Skywatch Friday – October Sky

October 16, 2008
Article in: Photography

On our Big Sit, we had lots of time to sit and enjoy the scenery. The sky was gorgeous and changing throughout the day.

Sky

See other great photos of the sky at Skywatch.

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Milky Way [Skywatch Friday]

October 9, 2008
Article in: Photography

The night sky is mysterious and awesome. Looking up on a clear night, you can imagine all the migrant birds making their way unafraid beneath the starry galaxy known as the Milky Way.


Photo taken by our brother-in-law Tony Aubuchon of the Rockford Amateur Astronomers Club

See other great photos of the sky at Skywatch.

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Pelicans!! [Skywatch Friday]

October 2, 2008
Article in: Photography

This Skywatch is a collection of those amazing birds we like to call Pelicans!! Both Brown and American White Pelicans are represented. Enjoy and be a part of watching the sky each week.

American White Pelicans

Brown Pelican

American White Pelicans

Brown Pelican

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