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The continuing odd couple - immature male Harlequin Duck and female Long-tailed Duck. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Harlequin Duck and Presque Isle Migrants

With a Sunday free from obligations and spring migration kicking into full swing, I joined up with Chad Kauffman and Mike Dreibelbis to head up towards Presque Isle State Park….

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron on Big Pine Key, Florida. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Night-Herons and other nocturnal birding in southern Florida

If we weren’t too exhausted from full days of birding, my friends and I tried to search for snakes, lizards, frogs, and any other herps would could find after dark…

My first lifer of the trip - Fulvous Whistling-Duck! (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Finally seeing a Fulvous – Stormwater Treatment Area 5

March 2nd, 2013 was the second full day of a Florida birding trip that I took with my friends Josh Lefever and Mark Mizak. Josh and I drove down from…

People driving past started to notice the group of 21 birders staring at the trees along the road, and one man stopped to ask what we were looking at. We told him and he responded with "What?....bulimian waxwings??" (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Bohemian Waxwings in Ottawa

During my recent trip to Canada with the PA Society for Ornithology, we spent our first full day around the Ottawa area and managed to see a Great Gray Owl,…

Our third northern owl of the day, an incredibly cooperative Northern Hawk Owl. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Owling in Ottawa – Part 3

Our day of birding in Ottawa was going wonderfully – we had gotten incredible views of both Great Gray Owl and Boreal Owl, and still had two more major targets lined…

A roosting Boreal Owl, in a spruce tree - my 900th lifer! (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Owling in Ottawa – Part 2

After a successful morning of birding around Ottawa we drove to where we had gotten a tip about a continuing Boreal Owl. I was asked by the local birders not…

Great Gray Owl along the Rockcliffe Parkway, Ottawa. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Owling in Ottawa – Part 1

After an eventful first day to our trip to Ontario, we were excited and ready to start birding around Ottawa. We had a hearty breakfast and made our final plans…

One of three Pine Grosbeaks at the Collins Landing rest area - a lifer for most of the birders on our trip! This bird is an immature male because of the orange-red wash on its head and rump. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Headed for Canada, but not without a Tufted Duck

This past weekend, I joined the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology (PSO) on a four day birding trip through Ontario. This would be the second time I had ever been to…

Two of 3 Razorbills we saw at Barnegat Inlet, NJ (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)
The Black-headed Gull stretching its wings. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

It’s really good to see you once again.

When you spend a lot of time birding local patches around your home, you can get somewhat attached to the birds you come across when you know they are likely…

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