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    my new Minox

    These will be good I hope. I just went to Eagle Optics and sent away for a new Minox, one of the least expensive ones, $259.99. It will be good o:D though, won't it?
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    Waggoner's Gap

    I was chilly at the top of a hawk watching mountain in Pennylvania called Waggoner's Gap and I saw my first ever Golden Eagle up there.
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    Bombay Hook

    Hello It's around 3:20pm over here and I just came back from a few hours in Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. I saw three birds for the first time in 2008. They were about 10 Horned Larks, dozens of Black-bellied Plovers and hundreds of Semipalmated Plovers. All the Greater and Least Egrets, Bald...
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    Mainly Delaware

    I went out this morning and added 7 birds to my 2008 list. I saw a: Northern Harrier Black-necked Stilt Greater Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Red Phalarope Laughing Gull Indigo Bunting My year list is still just a humble 80 amount of wild birds seen so far in 2008. I saw all of...
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    Wood Sandpiper

    On Wednesday morning I went to Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware and joined a crowd of of birders who were there looking with binos and scopes at a Wood Sandpiper. I saw it too. That bird has been in that marshy area for more than a week now and in Maryland, Virginia, and of course...
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    So far, this is my year list

    1. Pied-billed Grebe 2. Red-necked Grebe 3. Double-crested Cormorant 4. Canada Goose 5. Mallard 6. Hooded Merganser 7. Great Blue Heron 8. Turkey Vulture 9. Black Vulture 10. Bald Eagle 11. Cooper's Hawk 12. Red-shouldered Hawk 13. Ring-billed Gull 14. Herring Gull 15. Belted Kingfisher 16...
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    "scopes N Skies Ely"

    On the 19th of July I paid $211.41 to a British optics place, (Scopes 'n Skies) for a binocular, and had to pay an international transaction fee of $2.11. I have to go back there and see what's goin' on. Nothing has come yet, and no email from them either. I forgot which ones I bought. I...
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    Marcus's year list

    I doubt if mine well ever be very impressive. 1.Pied-billed Grebe 2.Great Cormorant 3.Whooper Swan 4.Mute Swan 5.Canada Gose 6.Mallard 7.American Wigeon 8.Ring-necked Duck 9.Common Eider 10.Hooded Merganser 11.Great Blue Heron 12.Black Vulture 13.Turkey Vulture 14.Bald Eagle 15.Cooper's Hawk...
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    Liocichla bugunorum

    Has anyone seen the online news story about this new bird being found in India? No photographs by anyone yet? Liocichla bugunorum is the scienticfic name it was given. There's a picture of the bird, and a story about when it was found at CNN.com, and a few other places too.
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    Vortex Talon?

    Is this one respectal enough to mention? I got one two days ago.
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    Hawk attacks dog

    Hello It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned this. Yesterday morning I saw a news report on TV about how in Maryland, I forgot exactly where, a Chicquaqua, (how do you spell that? I forgot.) out in the front yard of it's masters home was attacked by a hawk and the hawk carried the little...
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    Barska's?

    Is Barska the company that makes those 'new', expensive, binoculars that not too many members are 'crazy' about? You know, with the black bump's on the focus and the diopter, and with 36'' close focus? You know what I mean, right? I forgot what they are called. Well, I suppose if that's...
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    They're all in Ciconiiformes now?

    Hello I was looking online for information about a bird I saw today for my first time, a Royal Tern Sterna maxima. The first website I went to showed the order it belongs to, the Ciconiiformes. It also showed the different birds belonging to that order. Now, according to what it said, along...
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    Thank the Lord!

    I just 'heard', (on this computer) news some attempted bombings in London, but this time the terrorist's intentions failed and there were no fatalites. That is wonderful.
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    Surprise!

    Hello I had to send this. This morning I was out doing a little birding before work. As I walked along a nearby lake I saw a man with binoculars looking up in a tree. "A birder! Let me go say hello to him". When I walked up to him I asked if he sees anything good. He told me, "Everything's...
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    Cedar Waxwing and Carolina Wren

    I saw plenty of 'everyday' birds today, but this morning before work I saw a Cedar Waxwing, and while walking home from work I saw 2 Carolina Wrens, one singing. Those were 2 good ones.
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    This was not bad

    Hello I went to the Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware again this morning (Saturday) and saw some nice birds, although not as many as I saw when I went last month. I did see several Great and Snowy Egrets, American Avocets, and Glossy Ibises. And I saw two lifers, a Black Skimmer and a male and...
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    Walk around the lake

    Today was certainly nothing like that other time I listed all the birds I saw. At the lake near the shopping center: 1 Canada Goose 2 Mute Swan 3 Mallard 4 Great Blue Heron 5 Turkey Vulture 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 7 Mourning Dove 8 Belted Kingfisher 9 Downy Woodpecker 10 Eastern Kingbird 11 Tree...
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    The Big Year

    Hello Has anyone ever read, or reading, the book, 'THE BIG YEAR', written by Mark Obmascik, copyright 2004? It's described as 'A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obession'. I finished reading it this morning. THE BIG YEAR is about these three guys, Greg Miller, Sandy Komito and Al Levantin, who...
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    I've got to 'talk' about it.

    Hello Members I'll try to remember and list all the birds I saw today, from before I left home this morning, to right now. 1.Snow Goose 2.Canada Gose 3.Mallard 4.Great Blue Heron 5.Great Egret 6.Snowy Egret 7.Green Heron 8.Black-crowned Night-heron 9.Glossy Ibis 10.Turkey Vulture 11.Osprey...
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    Pretty good out the window

    Hello I did not go anywhere today. I just have been sitting in front of this computer most of the day. I have been seeing a whole lot of Tree and Barn Swallows and Chimney Swifts swooping back and forth and I saw a Baltimore Oriole fly by about 100' away. I've had a few of my 6 binoculars with...
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    What was it afraid of?

    At around 7:20 tonight I saw a short bird sight that I suppose was not very 'patriotic'. It was a Bald Eagle being chased through the sky by an American Crow.
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    OK, here's my little 2005 list

    1.Pied-billed Grebe 2.Double-crested Cormorant 3.Canada Goose 4.Mute Swan 5.Mallard 6.Canvasback 7.Ring-necked Duck 8.Hooded Merganser 9.Great Blue Heron 10.Great Egret 11.Black-crowned Night-heron 12.Black Vulture 13.Turkey Vultue 14.Osprey 15.Sharp-shinned Hawk 16.Bald Eagle...
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    My first Bald Eagle

    Beautiful! At about 8:20 this morning I was just sitting looking out my bedroom window toward a lake about 1/2 mile away when I saw an adult Bald Eagle fly over. My first lifer for 2005. I had a 7x32 pair of binos around my neck at the time. I wish I had one of my 8x or 10x though. But the 7x...
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    Cease Fox Hunt

    Hello This is probably nothing new to folks in the UK, but I heard and saw on the news today that traditional Fox Hunting, which has been 'around' for more than 300 years over there, is now officially illegal. What are your feelings about that? There are some people who will continue to hunt...
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