Last-minute Holiday Tips for Birders
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Tidings of the Season, Eons birders! Here are a few suggestions for last-minute gifts and craft projects for the birder(s) in your life -- enjoy!
Holiday Seed Wreaths and Pine Cones
As you decorate the interior of your home for ...
Holiday Seed Wreaths and Pine Cones
As you decorate the interior of your home for ...
Species Profile: Snowy Owl
posted over 4 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 3 comments
With our first significant snow falling on coastal Maine, and birders across the northern states thrilling to reports of “irruptive” winter visitors like Bohemian Waxwings and Common Redpolls, I’m feeling inspired to write about my favorite...
The Cat Conundrum
posted over 4 years ago, updated 9 minutes later | 3 comments
If you’ve got bird feeders in your yard, you might very well be exposing “your birds” to encounters with deadly, ruthless predators that they are not adapted to defend themselves against -- the “outdoor cats” in your area, one or more of which may...
Are Birders Really for the Birds?
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
We hear a lot these days about how popular birdwatching has become. According to the US Fish & Wildlife Service, which tracks trends in wildlife recreation through a plethora of surveys, 46 million Americans (what is that, a third of the count...
Chicken Feed (Not!)
posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 6 comments
If recent message threads among the Eons birding group are any indication, some Eons birders are spending heaps of money on bird seed -- as much as $100 per month. And I have friends who do likewise. For many of us, this level of expense would fee...
Identifying Hawks in Flight (Part 2)
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
In Part 1 of this blog entry I touched on the different hawk families and explained a little about how learning to pay attention to how hawks fly can help you “home in” on the ID of a hawk you just saw. I also suggested that, if you’re genuinely i...
Identifying Hawks in Flight (Part 1)
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Many birders are stymied when it comes to hawk ID. This is primarily because we so often tend to focus on plumage as a key differentiator among bird species. But many hawks have similar basic plumage characters, and also it’s often tough to see th...
Hawks in Flight!
posted over 4 years ago, updated 12 minutes later | 1 comment
Imagine seeing hundreds -- maybe even thousands -- of hawks soaring and gliding overhead in just a few hours! It’s a glorious natural spectacle. But beware: it’s addictive. Experience it once and you might end up like me…a hardcore hawkwatcher who...
Species Profile: Marbled Godwit
posted over 4 years ago, updated 5 minutes later | 1 comment
I’ve still got southbound shorebirds very much on my mind! So, since I need to write a blog entry, I might as well write about one particular shorebird species that has eluded me this year in Maine: the charismatic Marbled Godwit, Limosa fedoa<...
eXperience eBird!
posted over 4 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 1 comment
For many of us, keeping lists of the birds we see is a big part of how we approach birding. We might keep a life list, a year list, a yard list, a state list, a trip list, and so on and on. Some of us are cheerfully obsessed by our lists! For othe...
