A friend and I birded the Monroe County, Illinois, levee area on Sunday morning, September 11, 2005. It was sunny and getting warm when we turned off Bluff Rd. around 8:45. We had been hoping to find shorebirds, and I was elated when my friend pointed out an American Golden Plover and two Buff-breasted [...]
Michael You’re-Doing-a-Heck-of-a-Job Brown has resigned. I’m surprised Bush didn’t promote him, or at least give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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I’ve been pondering a thread that came up a couple of months ago on one of the lists I subscribe to because it concerns questions I haven’t resolved. The thread, resurrected and lumped together with an unrelated one that prompted discussion a week ago, concerns what and how much birders drive.
A [...]
I was in Lafayette Park this morning between 9:15 and 11:00. It was hot and humid and fairly slow. List follows:
Northern Flicker
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift (1)
Empid sp. (2)
European Starling
Tufted Titmouse (heard only)
Carolina Wren (heard only—at least one was singing tirelessly)
Magnolia Warbler (2)
American Redstart
Chestnut-sided Warbler (first-fall female)
Common Yellowthroat (2, one female and one first-fall male)
Northern [...]
