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By: A Thank You From Tricia « Audubon Center & Sanctuary

A Thank You From Tricia « Audubon Center & Sanctuary — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:46:15 +0000

[...] the Fledgling Birdathon Team spent a day birding for bucks. You can read about it by clicking here. We presented the scholarship check at our June First Friday [...]

By: RuthieJ

RuthieJ — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:42:31 +0000

Holy Moly Jennifer, that’s a whole bunch of birds! Good for you and your group. I’ve never seen a blue-gray gnatcatcher–what a gorgeous little bird.

By: winterwoman

winterwoman — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:08:15 +0000

cestoady – we were amazed at several birds we didn’t get: house finch, downy woodpecker, red-tailed hawk, turkey vulture… guess none of them wanted to brave the weather.

scienceguy – i may not be much of a birder, but thankfully, the rest of the people on my team are!

By: scienceguy288

scienceguy288 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:11:26 +0000

That is quite an impressibe list. Especially for someone who is “not much of a birder”

By: Cestoady

Cestoady — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:14:48 +0000

Marvelous list. Around these parts,eastern NY, the House Finch is a common bird that sings its head off most of the time — but I note that it is missing from your list. Is it that rare ?? or does it prefer living in the suburbs ??

By: toni

toni — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:22:57 +0000

I am always amazed when I get a chance to out birding with real birders. My husband and I got a chance to go with Tom (mon@rch) and we were blown away with what he pointed out.
Beautiful photo and that is quite a list.

By: winterwoman

winterwoman — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:29:03 +0000

Believe me… If I went by myself there is no way I would get this many birds. When you go with Real Birders, though, they point stuff out and then I can say, “Oh yeah… You’re right.” Ha ha! At least I can say that for some of the birds. Others, I just have to trust them!

Last year was a gorgeous day and we got 83 species.

Good luck when you go out, Tom! If wouldn’t mind a tag-along, let me know when you’re going. I could learn a lot from you (if I can even go that day…)

PS… Hope I didn’t mislead you… that picture wasn’t taken on our Birdathon… but way over in NJ by the incredible Jim Gilbert. I looked for one on Monarch’s Flickr site, but he doesn’t have a picture of one… yet…

By: mon@rch

mon@rch — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:11:55 +0000

Team T-bird have been talking about when we plan on doing our big day! Great list but will work hard to break last years numbers!

By: Nina

Nina — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:44:42 +0000

You had “good” day!
We’ve recently had blue-gray gnatcatchers here, too–flitting around in the locust just off the porch. I’m glad to see they’re so BLUE.
I didn’t notice them as much so here–ours look like mini mockingbirds.

I like your new “blogs I read” page!
Thanks for all the kind words.

By: Karen Weyant

Karen Weyant — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:30:31 +0000

I think that’s an impressive list — I was out this weekend and I saw lots of birds, although I couldn’t identify that many — but I also saw lots of muskrats!