Finding a day when six people can devote 24 hours to birding, even for a good cause like the Richmond Audubon Bird-a-thon, is a tough prospect. Throw in the looming spectre of the 2017 VSO Annual Meeting, which most of the team was involved in organizing, and it got nearly impossible. Saturday, April 29 was […]
The Crazy Coots participated in the Richmond Audubon Society fund raising Bird-a-thon for the sixth year. Funds raised through this event support the conservation, education and advocacy programs of the society – for information on how you can support the Coots and Richmond Audubon, including a handy “Donate” button, visit http://www.richmondaudubon.org/birdathon/coots.html. The Coots welcomed […]
We had a great turnout for the Richmond Audubon bird walk at the Wetlands section of James River Park today, on a cool gray day. It was great to meet several birders from the RAS Meetup group in the bunch. In spite of the weather, it was really birdy out there today. Once you got […]
We had a great morning/early afternoon out at Dutch Gap today – perfect weather and lots of evidence of arriving migrants and local breeding birds. The star of any visit to Dutch gap during migration and breeding seasons is the Prothonotary Warbler – we didn’t encounter our first Prothonotary until a bit after 10:00 am, […]
Richmond Audubon tries to do a field trip to Hog Island Wildlife Management Area in Surry County once a year or so. Hog Island is managed by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries primarily as a refuge for wintering waterfowl. At this time of year, it is good for coastal plain breeding birds and the […]
Richmond Audubon Society runs a Bird-a-thon every spring as a fund raiser. My team is called the Crazy Coots, and this is our Big Day report. The Coots welcomed two new members this year, Michael Dardozzi and Jack Esworthy, and their energy and knowledge helped propel the Coots to a team best big day. […]
Every year, Richmond Audubon Society runs a Bird-a-thon as one of our main fund raisers. The idea is to form a team with your birding buddies, pick a 24 hour period in the month of May, and then bird as hard as you can to see as many species as you can. That’s your team’s […]
Back around 1998 or 1999, after fairly thorough market research, I bought a Nikon 60mm Fieldscope III spotting scope and the excellent 40x wide angle eyepiece to go with it. It was the pick of the mid-range scopes at that time according to several influential publications. I think I used money from a textbook review […]
Ellison Orcutt and I had a good day birding southeastern Virginia yesterday. Target bird was Swainson’s Warbler, and we did get to hear that on a walk ably led by Nick Flanders at the Great Dismal Swamp Birding Festival. It was a cool, sunny morning in the swamp. The birdscape was dominated by singing Prairie […]
This is a story in three parts. Part One. I’m one of those people who likes keeping track of things. I have a spreadsheet of all the books I’ve read. At least the ones I could remember at the time I started the spreadsheet a few years ago. When I got interested in birds, I […]
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