Any birders out there?

re: Any birders out there?

Keith Combs — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:20:13 GMT

Thanks Martin. Life is short. Get outside and make your children go with you. :)

Thanks for the link to the National Geo area. I had actually already seen that section but enjoyed the reminder.

I've had a Nation Geographic subscription since I was old enough to read. That was a yearly present from my Grandmother. I envy the photo journalist. Love their work.

I'll have to take some pictures of the dragons that live around my house and post them.

re: Any birders out there?

Martin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:48:41 GMT

Keith, it's always a nice break to find a post about the unplugged world.

Up here in Vermont we get a lot of your critters -- even full-sized snapping turtles. But obviously we get the migrants a couple months later than you do. Waxwings won't be back for another two months, but you see bald eagles year round over the Adirondacks, southern Lake Champlain or the upper Hudson River. Lots of Ospreys state-wide here, and in winter, massive low-flying flocks of snow geese.

And if you're looking for a hummingbird fix, there's a local up here who videoed 200 varieties around the world, and National Geographic picked it up. Some are really wild-looking.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/feature4/multimedia.html

There are good birders and bad birders, but it ain't as sissy as some people make it out to be. Case in point: Jim Schlesinger, Nixon's Secretary of Defense, kept himself sane that way.

Martin

re: Any birders out there?

Tom — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:27:16 GMT

My time away from work is time on the CT river wakeboarding. Fortunetly for me and my wakeboarding friends there is a lot of wildlife to see, especially eagles. We have seen some big birds out there.

It's a nice break.