The Birds and Trees of North America is the latest edition of high-quality notebooks from Field Notes. These perfectly-sized notebooks fit in pockets, daypacks, backpacks, fanny-packs, gloveboxes, center consoles, drawers, and any other place you wish to have at your ready a place to take notes. Photo courtesy of Glendale Communications Group I’ve used Field
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AllTrails is a website/app that features mapped hiking trails created through the power of crowdsourcing. This review is in no way affiliated with AllTrails. But it is a vital resource to birders and hikers. Let’s get started! First impressions of AllTrails is a great big wow! After creating an account you enter a digital map
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Bison Union Co. is a western brand that sells hats, t-shirts, and an appeal to what makes America great. They also sell coffee which I’ll get to plus some other goods: mugs, patches and even boots to name a few. Their apparel is largely bison themed as you’d expect. Yet many hats feature emblematic animals
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One of the best things about attending the Biggest Week in American Birding has to be all of the wonderful new people you meet. Sometimes, a person really touches your life. While working at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory‘s Information booth some of the Birdfreaks met an artist named Kami Brough. If you visited the
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Check out our review on Bird Language with Jon Young – How to Interpret the Behaviors and Patterns of Nature at Birding is Fun. This is our indoor cat Rajah enjoying the birds on the DVD. Note: you may need to hit refresh to view the video.
Just in time for the Christmas Bird Count season, Stacia and I received a pair of Merrell boots each from Natureshop. Stacia’s pair is the Merrell Taiga Buckle Waterproof. My pair is not “officially” in the winter boot category but is instead a hiking boot: the Merrell Refuge Core Mid Ventilator Waterproof. We both wore
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the fifth video game in the Elder Scrolls series from Bethesda Softworks. It is an epic adventure and an open-ended game of exploration. We find it both beautiful and entertaining and have been having fun playing it since it came out 11-11-11. Skyrim is a large land full of forest,
Stacia and I saw The Big Year movie on opening night, Friday, October 14th, 2011. This movie had received a lot of hype from birders across the country and we were excited to see it. Here is our joint review from a new birder and the self-proclaimed “birdfreak”. NOTICE: There are no spoilers so you’re
