I was fortunate to be able to travel to both Thailand and Kenya in the first two months of the year. In each area I managed a little time to do some birding, and used a local guide each time. If one really wants to see and identify the birds, using a local guide is [...]
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Every few years, often when the lemming population is sparce, the Snowy Owl makes a foray southward from its home in the Arctic. It goes searching for food and has been spotted in places as far away as Alabama and Georgia. It’s journey is called irruptive, and birders often wait to see unusual visitors from [...] Like many others, I was a fan of John Stott. The first I knew of John Stott was when I was a youth minister at the Trent Church of Christ in Dexter, Oregon. I was attending Northwest Christian College and had come across his book Basic Christianity. The text was a great one to use in preparing lessons [...] Due to a “failure to launch,” there have been no blog entries for over a month. Not that I did not write some entries, but due to a computer problem that is not yet worked out, nothing I entered stayed, if you can follow that. So let me back up and try again (for the fifth time) [...] In case you are wondering, I am not using the word spot in a geographical sense, but as in spotted with my own eyes. All birds mentioned were lifers for me. 10. Limpkin, in a water purifiying area near Ft. Lauderdale. And since I also got a purple gallinule there, it was a great morning. [...] Robyn and I just returned from a week of vacation in Texas. We rented a car and drove to San Antonio and the surrounding “hill country.” While there we learned that it was fiesta time, and that if we returned we could participate in NIOSA. We had no idea what that meant, but learned it stood [...] As promised, here is a list of the lifers I recorded on my recent trip to Kenya. One bird was seen at an elevation of 7200 feet. Several were seen at about 4500 feet. Most were at lower elevations, in the Turkana desert and in the Magadi basin. Special thanks to my birding buddies, Jesse [...] Several years ago I was asked to join the team of contributing editors to the news magazine, Christian Standard. This magazine is the longest contining magazine in America, approaching its 150th year anniversary. The capable editor is Mark Taylor, a good friend to many people. Mark is joined by Paul Williams, another friend. Each year the contributing editors [...] For the last fifteen years we have lived in a condominium. That means we have no yard to speak of. We grow a few things–tomatoes, hot peppers, basil–in containers that sit on a slab of cement. A few years ago we added a pergola, though it is probably not spelled that way, from which we [...] Birders are aware of something called a Rare Bird Alert, which means exactly that. Birders like to share their ‘finds’ with others, and if a birder sees a bire rare to his or her area, he or she puts out a Rare Bird Alert (RBA). RBA’s can go out to selected friends by telephone. For example, “Hey Joe, [...] |
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