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Recent content by VonMaunder

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    From my Manhattan Window

    Love your Egret capture! Great composition, very 'moody' too!
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    Current Sightings

    Too long of a Winter, and more snow in the forecast. A lot of Saw Whet Owl beeping last week. Heard the Wood Frogs yesterday at a sunnier vernal pool than homestead's. American Woodcock calling last eve Barred Owl recently spent 3 days perched around the feeders, made a few attempts on mice or...
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    Current Sightings

    Glad to hear you're getting some sightings! Enjoy!
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    Current Sightings

    Northern Parula Ruby Crowned Kinglets Black Throated Green Warbler Red-Eyed Vireo Solitary Vireo (BH) Downy Woodpecker Red and White Breasted Nuthatches BC Chickadee Blue Jay
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    Current Sightings

    Flurry of warbler activity at the homestead this am: Black Throated Blue Black Throated Green Northern Parula Pine Nashville Myrtle Juvenile Common Yellowthroat Black & White American Redstart Solitary Vireo (BH) And: Ruby Throated Hummingbirds Black Capped Chickadee Red and White Breasted...
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    What were your first pair of binoculars & for the bonus round what was your first field guide?

    The 1990 was still color coded, it worked well for me as a novice and still does, probably because I've used it for so long. I find Sibley frustrating at times. I prefer the similarly vintaged American Bird Conservancy's All the Birds of NA and Nat Geo's FG to Birds of NA over the latter.
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    What were your first pair of binoculars & for the bonus round what was your first field guide?

    My first 'real' binocular was a Pentax 12X50, still use them going on 35 years. And the guide, not quite a field version, but it was the 1982 edition of Reader's Digest North American Wildlife that I 'borrowed' from my parents home when I left at 17. I read that thing for hours, over and over...
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    Current Sightings

    Was hoping to get into some water up there but it didn't happen. Good to be prepared! I gather The N Harrier is a bit of a rarity in Manhattan! I wonder if there are any that nest along the marshland the NJTP runs through.
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    Current Sightings

    Lots of warblers moving through the treetops this am, most unidentified but did see: American Redstart, Nashville Warblers Ovenbird Brown Creeper and Winter Wren in same field of view through the Zeiss 10X40 Hairy Woodpecker Blue Jay clan Past weekend, camped up north, quiet bird, insect and...
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    Current Sightings

    And the fissure cave, too much granite here for 'real' caves. I've been in the state's deepest/longest at ~90' By those standards, this 40' run holds its own. I stumbled on this years ago by chance then lost it for almost a decade. I don't know how known it is, no signs of travel, ferns in the...
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    Current Sightings

    Homestead abuzz this am: Pine Warbler clan Black & White Warbler clan Canada Warbler Red & White Breasted Nuthatches, the Whites have been a bit scarce this year. Brown Creeper Common Yellowthroat Gold and Purple Finches at the feeder that the bear re-re-mangled and emptied 2 nights ago. Hermit...
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    Current Sightings

    Crossed the border into Canadian Campabello yesterday, didn't see much in the way of birds but did find large expanses of coastal mudflat that will be choice during migration. Watched Common Loon down a lobster, Guillemots, Possible Common Goldeneye, positive ID just out of range. Ring-Billed...
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    Pistyll y Llyn, a 100+ meter tall waterfall

    Hopefully Pistyll y Llyn stays that way! I gather the effort you put in weeds most people out. Not near the grandeur of that above, but found this one while bushwhacking up the saddle between 2 mountains in a wilderness park up N. After the falls, the stream disappeared underground, just a bed...
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    Pistyll y Llyn, a 100+ meter tall waterfall

    Great write-up and pics, thank you, I enjoyed! Some of my favorite things-- waterfalls, raised peat bogs and orchids, what an incredible area!
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    Current Sightings

    In my case, fishing IS birdwatching, toss out the line, watch the birds! Once in a while, I'm interrupted by a fish.
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