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VENTbird

  1. Our Athens pre-trip was a combination of history , birds and flowers. Highlights included a European Nightjar perched on the Acropolis .
  2. Wonderful birding in West Texas with Cornell Lab donors. Brilliant Vermilion Flycatchers everywhere , Zone-tailed Hawks even a KY Warbler!
  3. Little St Simons island:40 wood storks,25 white ibis,30 snowy&20 great egrets,4 spoonbill,6 tricolored&4great blue heron,3 Blk Skimmers
  4. Third day of VENT's owl workshop. Watched a great gray owl for 90 Minutes as it hunted 30 yards from us. Incredible ! Our 7th owl .
  5. Last morming at high island scarlet tanagers, rose-breasted and blue grosbeaks, indigo and painted buntings so much b
  6. Visited white lake in louisisana to see the whooping crane project saw seven cranes in flight and 3000 fulvous whistling ducks!
  7. Birded the piney woods north of Beaumont . Great looks at Prairie and Pine Warblers. A front is hitting the coast. Birding should be great,
  8. Thousands of avocets and hundreds of egrets and herons gathered to feed near the base of the jetty this morning.gulls and terns also.
  9. Wood,Swainsons and Gray-cheeked Thrushes side by side at the water drip also indigo bunting and blue grosbeak bathing together!
  10. Thee marvelous afternoons at the high island drip: prothonotary , hooded, worm-eating,Ky,B&W,Tenn, Parula,Wilsons, Chat and more.
  11. Just back from the amazon, a marvelous trip 190 birds, 8 monkeys, beautiful sunsets. Flock of 100 sand-colored nighthawks feeding at dusk.
  12. One of the rarest birds in the world, Gray-crowned Crocias, discovered at new area in Vietnam by David Bishop. bit.ly/HhraHy
  13. Told the story of the Eskimo curlew sightings on Galveston island in the early sixties . Those were the last confirmed records.
  14. Wonderful aerial courtship displays of red-tailed tropicbirds at kilauea point along with red-footed boobies and laysan albatross
  15. At my bolivar cottage great bird show this morning thousands of avocets and skimmers and much more. The Texas coast is so great for birds.
  16. Just saw THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT, an extraordinary movie about birding central park and how it affects people's lives .
  17. Great looks today at two if Hawaii's rarest birds; Palila and Akiapolaau, each has a world population of less than 1000.
  18. I took 16 friends including six kids to see the eagles near Llano .one of the adults flew in , perching near the two young thrilling us all
  19. A few days ago our Venezuela tour participants saw a flock of fifteen Red Siskins, one of the most threatened birds in South America.
  20. Saw 14 rusty blackbirds at Hornsby today. A remarkable number for the Austin area. One of the males had a white stripe above it's eye!