Hi all. Wow, we got all the boxes up at Salt Point and 10 of the bluebird
boxes at the Lansing Center Trail. That is amazing! So...if anyone wants to
come back in the morning to help put up the last 5 bluebird boxes and possibly
the screech owl box on the Short Line Spur, we are meeting agai
Following the thread about spooking birds, I would also like to ask birders to
follow the traffic laws when on a Federal Wildlife Refuge. As I left the Ibises
at Benning about 8:30 AM, another vehicle began to follow me out, only to turn
around and drive the wrong way back to Benning Marsh so th
Male wood ducks - 10 in the lagoon, and in the swan pen a juvenile green
heron and small flock of yellow rump warblers.
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As of a half hour ago there was a flock of some 150 BRANT a few hundred yards
offshore at Stewart Park. Stu, Judy, and I also followed a group of 15 Dunlin
as they coursed back and forth between the lighthouses, sometimes nearly
alighting ON TOP of the swimming Brant! They eventually came to res
There are plenty of people with giant lenses who know how to be subtle, so I don't think equipment envy is the issue. Gary is a fine observer, photographer, and outdoorsman who knows how to approach wildlife. The issue, I think, is awareness of how to act so as not to spook the birds, especially ra
As a photographer that has followed this list for sometime, I am grateful
that the inappropriate actions of my fraternity are regularly highlighted
by certain members of the birdwatching community. Although I wasn't the
photographer mentioned in the post, I always welcome these opportunities to
be