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  1. Cindy M

    Mass Migration: Southbound Hawks setting records

    An occasional osprey or northern harrier trickled past Duluth's Hawk Ridge on Tuesday morning, but all of the talk was about the day before. On Monday, hawk counters and about 150 birders witnessed a raptor movement on a scale never before seen at the ridge. A total of 101,698 broad-winged...
  2. Cindy M

    Michigans 'River of Raptors'

    During the autumn months, the skies over southeast Michigan are alive with tens of thousands of hawks, eagles, falcons, and other birds of prey. In the fall of 1983, the Lake Erie Metropark Hawk Watch began recording this fall hawk migration over Lake Erie Metropark and Pointe Mouillee State...
  3. Cindy M

    Birding on Borrowed Time -

    I just finished one of the most moving and delightful books on birding that I've ever read, and you could say I've read a few :) 'Birding on Borrowed Time' is the true story of Phoebe Snetsinger- written in her own words, a remarkable story of the woman who saw more birds in her life than any...
  4. Cindy M

    Michigan

    Michigan is an absolute birders' paradise. Our huge tracts of hardwoods are home to many upland game birds, diurnal raptors, and cavity nesters; our marshes support many waterfowl species and passerines ; and our beaches invite many shorebirds and waders. Michigan's diverse habitat is home to...
  5. Cindy M

    2003 Midwest Birding Symposium

    When? September 11-14, 2003 Where? Regency Suites Hotel and KI Convention Center, Green Bay, Wisconsin Why? You'll see a huge number of migrating birds... Meet the biggest names in the birding community... Learn from experts... View winning photos from the Birder's World Photo Contest... And...
  6. Cindy M

    N. American Birding Festivals/Events

    From birdinghotspot.com NAS BirdAThon, 800-647-BIRD, [email protected], www.audubon.org/bird/birdathon/index.html Okanagan Big Day Challenge, Naramata, BC, [email protected], 250-496-4049, www.meadowlarkfestival.bc.ca/bigday.htm Northeast Iowa's Spring Birding Festival, Lansing...
  7. Cindy M

    Piping Plovers- Glen T's photos

    Our fellow forum member, Glen Tempke , has been sharing some of the most beautiful photos in the gallery of ENDANGERED Piping Plovers, both chicks and adults, that I have ever seen. Here's an example- Piping Plover chick (by Glen Tempke) Piping plovers breed only in North America in three...
  8. Cindy M

    a magical emergence..

    This past Monday we finally had a couple warm nights in a row, warm enough to encourage a few moth species to emerge- and emerge they did! The area around our mercury vapor light was absolutely full of hundreds of medium-sized white fluttering moths known as 'The Half-Wings' (Phigalia titea)-...
  9. Cindy M

    Kowa TSN-DA1 Digital Photo Adapter

    Andy B. asked if I'd share my experience with the Kowa TSN-DA1 Adapter, so here goes nuthin. I recently purchased a nikon coolpix 990 to use in conjunction with my Kowa TSN-2 spotting scope & 20x-60x kowa zoom eyepiece. After asking around and reading possibly too many webpages about lens...
  10. Cindy M

    Help to protect the Endangered Species Act

    this just in from ABA ACT NOW TO PROTECT AMERICA'S MOST IMPERILED SPECIES. A SIMPLE MOUSE CLICK CAN SAVE ENDANGERED BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES, MAMMALS AND OTHER WILDLIFE. WWW.SAVEOURBIRDS.ORG We urgently need your help to stop a new government proposal that would begin the erosion of the Endangered...
  11. Cindy M

    Bird Lovers File Lawsuit Against FCC

    Bird Lovers File Lawsuit Against FCC Environmentalists are suing the Federal Communications Commission to force it to protect the millions of migratory birds killed each year when they slam into communications towers. The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Washington, D.C., targets...
  12. Cindy M

    Aggressive Seagulls Menacing Urban Britain

    I came across this story while browsing through National Geographic online- and I thought we had problems with seagulls, this was quite disturbing to read.. is the press blowing this out of proportion, like they so often do? to read the full story: Aggressive Seagulls Menacing Urban Britain
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