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Project SNOWSTORM
We know, we know, that's not a Snowy Owl up there. It's a Eurasian Eagle Owl photographed by our friend Peter Kaestner, who is currently in Afghanistan. Those eyes are incredible, right? Back to...
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Spring is in the Air!
Well... it doesn't really feel very spring like in Maryland yet, but an Eagle at Blackwater Refuge in Cambridge, Maryland laid the first egg of the season yesterday! So... warmer days can't be that...
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Urban Snowy Owls, French Chocolate and a Holy Lifer
A quick update on Birdingcouple's doings ... and the doings of birds....We KNOW that the winter of 2013-2014 has been a historic irruptive season for Snowy Owls. But who would have thought one would...
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Friends in the news
Birdcouple recently returned from a great vacation in Southern California - more on that and the great birds we saw in our next post - and have been neglectful of birdcouple.com.We want to get back...
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Love Day is also Great Backyard Bird Count Day!
A friendly reminder: in between smooching on your sweetie tomorrow, get started on the Great Backyard Bird Count!!!In fact, the GBBC - citizen science at its best - is already underway, with the first...
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Birds of Southern California
Birdcouple LOVES to go birding on the West Coast - it's a wonderful mix of familiar birds (like this Pied-Billed Grebe), other species we rarely see, and new friends that we meet for the first time. We...
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A Birder's Guide to EVERYTHING!
A new movie about birding!... she said jumping up and down with excitement! Cute Husband and I have run into so many new young birders who got turned onto birds from the movie The Big Year, so it...
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Guess who turns 80 on Sunday?!
The Federal Duck Stamp!Guess who has provided more than $850 million to the National Wildlife Refuge System?The Federal Duck Stamp!How can you celebrate the work of the conservationists who put the...
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Birds of the late winter snow
Eastern BluebirdWarren worked at home on Monday, during what WE HOPE will be the last snowstorm of a very long winter. In between reading serious documents and emailing colleagues, he took a few...
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Paul Baicich - a well-deserved award
Paul Baicich was the winner of the 2014 Wetland Conservation Achievement Awards in the Communication Category, awards that are given by Duck Unlimited.As the citation says:Baicich has been an active...
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The snake and ... the raccoon?
Lisa and I don't actually encourage wild creatures to come inside and share our Lovenest, but ... hey, we live on 1.8 acres of woods, with trees as close as 8 feet to the house, and we refuse to use...
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A Birder's Guide to Everything... Review
Well... movie night was not actually a night out as I predicted here. Because, we couldn't find A Birder's Guide to Everything playing at any local movie theater. And, by local, I basically mean the...
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New Songbird Stamps from the Postal Service!
These beauties were just issued today. Warren, who used to collect stamps many, many years ago, would love to have a first day of issue copy of them.If you're using snail mail, please buy them, use...
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Spring migrants, and spring surprises
Pine Warbler Birdcouple gets a little bird crazy this time of year, when spring finally hits and the migrants arrive in wave after wave. So, as soon as Saturday morning struck, we headed down to...
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Postcard from Afghanistan, Part 3
As we have posted before here and here, dear friend and super-birder Peter Kaestner is in Afghanistan these days. He is of course already the top birder in that country, according to eBird's standings,...
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Junior Duck Stamp winners for 2014
Very quick post this morning .... BC wants to congratulate the winners of the 2014 National Junior Duck Stamp Contest. (Full information about the program from the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
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Photo Big Day
.. and other news from our friends at Princeton University Press.www.photobigday.org The folks who brought us The Warbler Guide (which is sitting next to us as we type), Tom Stephenson and Scott...
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Birds and BEES!
I have pictures of a ginormous swarm thrown off from my Russian bees, Hive Hera. But, alas, I can't figure out how to get them off my phone in a vertical position. Cute Hubby will figure out this...
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Maryland Photographed Birds List
Among the many lists Warren keeps - it's an affliction, he knows - is a list of birds photographed within the borders of our fair state of Maryland.That list stands at 240 species now, thanks to this...
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Birdcouple's May Big Day
After three or four just-shy attempts over the years to see 100 species of birds in Maryland in one day, Birdcouple set out this morning determined not to fail again. Big Days, Lisa and Warren agreed,...
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Gone hikin'
BC has gone hikin'....Meanwhile, this from the New York Times on "gadgets vs eyeballs." And here's there guide to birding resources in NY City.BIRD WEEKIt’s Gadgets vs. Eyeballs as Two Species of...
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Tennessee!
You don't have to walk across the state of Virginia to find this sign on the Appalachian Trail. But, Cute Husband and I did... well it took a couple of years to make that happen, but we walked into...
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ABC: Save the Golden-Winged Warbler
This beautiful illustration in Bird Conservation, the journal of the American Bird Conservancy, jumped out at us over this lovely, slow Memorial Day weekend Birdcouple is spending at home, after...
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