Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the 518-mile Freshwater Birder’s Paradise Along America’s Byways in New York and Pennsylvania. Published by: Seaway Trail Foundation. Written by: Gerald A. Smith with chapters by Willie D’Anna, Jerry McWilliams, and David Semple; illustrated by Robert McNamara; Edited by Julie Covey. 1996 marked a special
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The Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is a cool northwoods find for us in the Birdfreak world. Visits to our relatives in Park Falls, Wisconsin – the “Ruffed Grouse Capital of the World” – give us the opportunity to see not only the Ruffed Grouse, but other northern species such as the Gray Jay (a species
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The following photos are digiscoped with our Swarovski Digiscoping Rig and are of one of the year’s few LIFE BIRDS. These American Golden Plovers were hanging out at a sod farm along a hidden gravel road. Please note that the distance was far and the lighting poor but using high powered optics helps to manage
Bird photography isn’t easy. It requires a steady hand and a lot of patience. And a big lens helps a lot!! Here Birdfreak is shooting with the Canon 100-400mm image stabilized lens.
There’s nothing quite like a local bird club field trip. It is a great way to talk birds with fellow birders and help find birds as a group. This past Saturday we participated in the first of the season’s NCIOS bird club field trip. Oh, and I happened to be the leader. We headed out
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Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet
