The Following Are Posts About:
Our Birding Adventures: Birding Beyond The Backyard
Including two posts on a trip to Mexico
as well as a couple on a trip to Magee Marsh in Ohio
and Birding Hot Spots in Maryland
Visiting Mexico, you can see wonderfully interesting birds. So how do you identify birds common to parts of the Yucatan, like Cancun, Tulum, Progresso or Merida? I’ve got some pictures to help. Read on!
Continue reading Birds Seen in Mexico
If pressed, I would say that I am an intermediate birder. I can successfully identify the common birds, as well as most of the regular migrants and less common birds, that might wander through my area. I’ve also seen some less common and rare birds, around here and in other places, that I would recognize again. Basically, when it comes to identifying birds, I know enough to be dangerous, not in a lethal kind of way, but in that way of assuming I know something that can lead me wrong. Sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know. And that is where you make mistakes . . .
Continue reading Not Assuming You Know Birds
Photographing Birds at Magee Marsh: In May, Jim and I took our birding on the road. We headed off to “The Biggest Week in American Birding” festival and to see warblers at Magee Marsh near Lake Erie in Ohio. We spent a solid week birding at the marsh and around the area and loved the adventure. During our time there, we saw 101 species of birds and added 27 to our birding life list.
Estimated reading time: 17 minutes
Continue reading Photographing Birds at Magee Marsh (Coolpix p900)