Ever since I saw my very first weather related internet site I have been dissapointed. I have been continually amazed at how poorly these sites were setup, how much advertising there was, how little information there was, etc… All this was true until I found Weather Underground. Weather Underground is the best weather site that [...]
A beatiful new bird, Bugun Liocichla, has been found in India.
Finally I get to Part 2 of my trip report for South Dakota! First a bit about the rental car: we arrive at Rapid City Regional Airport without incident. It is a small airport, very small. We go up to the Rental counter to fetch our car, which was supposed to be a Corolla or [...]
Nick over at birdDC chose me for his next DC area birder profile. I gladly obliged and you can see it here!
Early in July of this year (2006) we took a trip out Western South Dakota. The trip was centered on visiting with my wife’s family. Her parents were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in Deadwood, SD. When I first knew that we were going to be going to South Dakota I was excited as I [...]
In the spirit of my previous posts about the Most Beautiful Bird Meme and Most Beautiful Bird Song Meme, I offer up another meme: The Bitten by the Birding Bug Bird Meme The specifics; * Introduce the bird (or other event/item if so required) that made you become a birder. * Describe what about the [...]
Beating the heat (just by a little bit) Greg and I started birding in NW Faquier County this morning at 5:30am. We drove down Harrison Rd were we heard both BOBOLINK and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW but saw neither. We then moved on to the Bridle Trail at Sky Meadows SP. We made a clockwise loop following [...]
This past Sunday, June 4th 2006, I birded Sky Meadows State Park in NW Faquier County, VA. The approximately 2000 acre park is only about 40 miles from my house and offers some habitats that are very different from where I usually bird. The bulk of the park consists of grazed meadows and mature hardwood [...]
I had heard rumor of an off-the-beaten-path place to bird. It was called either Possum Point, Cockpit Point Rd, or more simply, the Point. It is in the lower part of Southern Prince William County, Virginia, and is mostly, if not all, on property owned by Dominion Power. This past Saturday I decided to investigate, [...]