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Alaska trip – May 31 – June 8, 2012
American Flamingos in Everglades NP
Annual Xmas Week Bird Count 2015
Annual Xmas week bird count in Palm Beach County
Another Florida Parakeet
Antillean Nighthawk – Marathon Key
August, 2013 – Taxonomic changes
Back to Southeast Arizona
Bahama Mockingbird in Lantana, FL
Barn Owls and Common Nighthawks
Barred Owls in Sarasota
Barrow
Big Oaks NWR – Henslow’s Sparrow
Birding the Adirondacks
Black Swift in Ouray, Colorado
Black-faced Grassquit at Bill Baggs SP
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Black-whiskered Vireo
Bluff Point – Philadelphia Vireo
Bluff Point Fallout
Bluff Point, Groton, CT
Boynton Beach White-faced Whistling Duck
Bridled Terns in the Gulf Stream
Cape Cod Little Stint
Chasing the Colorado Chickens
Coastal Maine: Red-billed Tropicbird and Little Gull
Common Cuckoo in Rhode Island
Common Shelduck in Meriden
Connecticut Warbler – Florida Atlantic University
Connecticut Warbler – skulker extraordinaire
Connecticut Warblers – Richardson Park
Curlew Sandpiper – Bridgehampton, NY
Eastern Meadowlark species split
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Egyptian Goose now “ABA countable” in southeast Florida
Evergreen Cemetery – April warblers
First-fall Warblers
Florida Warbler Migration
Florida Yellow-headed Blackbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher – Hadlyme, CT
Fort Lauderdale – Spot-breasted Orioles
Four for four in Texas
Gator with dinner – maybe…
Green Cay – Hybrid Teal
Green Cay – La Sagra’s Flycatcher
Green Cay Wetlands – Least Bittern
Green Cay Wetlands – Least Bitterns and more
Green Cay Wetlands – Northern Waterthrush
Greenwich Audubon Center – Lawrence’s Warbler
Hammonasset Fall Shorebirds
Hammonasset Fallout
Hammonasset Grasshopper Sparrow
Hammonasset Sandpipers and more
Hammonasset State Park, Madison, CT
Hammonasset Stilt
Hammonassett Red Crossbills
Harris’s Sparrow in Connecticut
Horsehead Beach, Westport, MA
Iceland Gull – Madison, CT
Idaho’s Cassia Crossbill
Ivory Gull in Illinois
Ivoryton, CT – Olive-sided Flycatcher
La Sagra’s Flycatcher redux
Lawrence’s Warbler – Essex, CT
Least Bittern follow-up
Least Bittern revisited
Limpkins
Little Blue X Tricolored-Heron Hybrid
Little Egret – first Connecticut state record
Loxahatchee NWR
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
Lunar Eclipse
Maine
Menunketesuck Island
Meshomasic State Forest revisited
Monk Parakeets at Pilots Point
More Connecticut Shore…
More Florida Specialties
More Hammonasset Sparrows
More Sandpipers
More Springtime in Connecticut
Mount Washington, NH
Nanday Parakeet now ABA “countable.”
Nantucket Atlantic Pelagic
Neighborhood Screech-Owls
New Mexico – Rosy-Finches and more
Northern Goshawk
Northern Saw-whet Owl banding
Pacific Pelagics
Palm Beach County annual XMAS week bird count
Photographing Hawaii
Pink-footed Goose in Connecticut
Purple Swamphen now “ABA countable”
Purple Swamphens at Green Cay
Red-headed Woodpecker in Connecticut
Red-necked Phalarope, Portland, CT
Rose-ringed Parakeet in Boynton Beach
Roseate Spoonbill at Green Cay Wetlands
Rusty Blackbirds – Colchester, CT
Saltmarsh Sparrows, Madison, CT
Salton Sea and Pacific Pelagic 8/31 – 9/6
Seacrest Scrub
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Rhode Island
Shawangunk Grasslands
Shorebird Migration at Hammonasset
Smooth-billed Anis at Loxahatchee
Smooth-billed Anis nesting again at Loxahatchee
Snow Bunting comparison
Snowy Owl in East Haven
Southern Arizona Bonanza
Spanish River Park – Black-whiskered Vireo
Sparrow time in Connecticut
Spotted Dove at Santa Catalina
Springtime back at Hammonasset
Springtime in Connecticut
STA-5 – Snail Kites and more
STA-5 and Belle Glade Barn Owls
Taxonomic changes, July, 2014
Texas – Lower Rio Grande Valley
Texas Rio Grande Valley Trip – Feb 24 – March 4
The Cackling Goose that wasn’t…
The Great American Eclipse
The Great Dismal Swamp
The Rarest State Bird
The Tricolored Munias in Belle Glade, FL
The Whiskered Tern at Cape May
Thick-billed Vireo at Bill Baggs SP
Thick-billed Vireo in Dania Beach, Florida
Tropical Mockingbird in Lake Worth, FL
Updates from Hawaii
Variegated Flycatcher in Fort Lauderdale
Wakodahatchee Wetlands
Western Spindalis in south Florida
Western Trip: May 30 – June 11
White-winged Parakeet
White-winged Scoter at Pilots Point
Wood Sandpiper – Jamestown, RI
Yellow Rail Festival – Jennings, LA
Yellow-breasted Chat at Hammonasset
Zenaida Dove at Long Key SP
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