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Category Archives: Travel
Mammal Watching Trip Report — American Southwest
The mammal trip report from the young birder road trip I took through Texas and Arizona this summer is now posted on the mammal watching forums. It’s not birds but hey, it’s pretty cool anyway. Link: http://www.mammalwatching.com/2017/10/09/new-trip-report-texas-arizona-2017/
Posted in Mammals, Travel
Tagged American Southwest, Arizona, Mammal Watching, Mammals, Texas, Trip Report
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Northern Albanian Mountains and Marshes
Last week I crossed the border from Montenegro into Albania by bus. I’m in Albania and Kosovo for about a month, and have been doing a little bit of birding while here. This has been a fascinating experience as these … Continue reading
An Important Announcement!
Work on this blog has, unfortunately, been temporarily halted with the recent death of my computer. I am still working on getting set up again with photos, but should be able to write again as normal in a couple days. … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel
Tagged Albania, Balkans, Bird Watching, Birding, Bosnia, Caucasus, Eastern Europe, gap, Herzegovina, Kosovo, Mammal Watching, Mammals, Middle East, North Africa, travel, Turkey, year, Yugoslavia
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Ontario Winter Roadtrip 2017
Following the great success of a young birder roadtrip to Michigan over the summer, I was chomping at the bit to organize another young birder trip. The opportunity presented itself when fellow Pittsburgh young birder Jack Chaillet and I were … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Mammals, Travel
Tagged Algonquin, Birding, black-backed woodpecker, boreal, Canada, Great grey, mammalwatching, Ontario, owl, park, Provincial
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Tale of Three Vagrants
For the past week I have been in Florida briefly before heading down to the Dominican Republic day after tomorrow (much more on that later). While it has not been a birding trip, I have had a bit of time … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel
Tagged ABA, Birding, Birds, Biscayne, black-faced, Boca Raton, code 4, code 5, Cuban, Dominican Republic, dove, Florida, grassquit, Hispaniola, key, Largo, Long Key, Miami, pewee, rarity, South, south florida, state park, travel, vagrant, Zenaida
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More Fun in the Alpine (Camp Colorado Day 3)
Lifers Denoted by Bold My doormates and I woke up earlier than the rest of the group the next morning and went out with the goal of finding dusky grouse. Outside it was still raining, but it looked as if it … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Mammals, Travel, Youth Birder Camps
Tagged ABA, American dipper, banding, bird, Birding, Birds, camp, Cassin's finch, CO, Colorado, dusky grouse, Estes Park, finch, goshawk, interior, mountain bluebird, mountains, mule deer, red-naped sapsucker, Rocky Mountain National Park, Rocky Mountains, townsend's solitaire, uinta chipmunk, west, Williamson's sapsucker, YMCA of the Rockies, young, youth
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Cleaning up South Florida Specialties — March 2015
Lifers Denoted by Bold Over the past spring break, my family went down to spend a week in South Florida. Having been to Florida twice before, I had seen a lot of the specialty birds to be found there. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel
Tagged Birding, Birds, dry, Everglades, exotic, flamingo, Florida, La Sagra's flycatcher, lifers, national park, rarity, Sandy Komito, South, south florida, specialty, Tern, tortugas, travel, twitching
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The First Days of Camp Colorado
Lifers denoted by Bold This summer, I was given the opportunity to travel to Colorado and attend the ABA’s Camp Colorado run out of Estes Park. It was a brilliant opportunity to explore Colorado’s bird life more thoroughly than I … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Mammals, Travel, Youth Birder Camps
Tagged American west, Birding, Birds, blackbird, Colorado, Estes Park, goshawk, ground-squirrel, Mammals, national park, Rocky Mountains, yellow-headed
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The Final Days of Camp Chiricahua
Lifers Denoted by Bold On the final full day of Camp Chiricahua, we woke up early in Patagonia to head towards Florida (pronounced Floreeda) Canyon. This was a spot I had been hoping to visit all trip as it was holding … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel, Youth Birder Camps
Tagged 2014, Arizona, AZ, black-capped, camp, canyon, Chiricahua, cormorant, day, Florida, gnatcatcher, last, Madera, neotropic, plain-capped, rufous-capped, SE, starthroat, sunset, trogon, Tucson, warbler
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Day 10 of Camp Chiricahua — Patagonia
Lifers Denoted by Bold Our first stop on day 10 was at the Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Reserve. However, we got our first good bird of the day on the entrance road to the preserve before we had even reached the preserve itself. … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Mammals, Rarities, Travel, Youth Birder Camps
Tagged American, Arizona, birder, Birding, black-bellied, camp, common poorwill, elf, feeder, goldfinch, gray, grey hawk, hummingbird, kingbird, owl, Patagonia, Patton, peccary, Southeastern, Southwest, tropical, Virginia's warbler, whiskered-screech, whistling-duck, young
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