I am! I will be in Ohio for the middle weekend of September with the entire American birding world. Who else out there is going to join us? If you don’t go you will miss the guaranteed Kirtland’s Warbler! And how do folks feel about we bird bloggers getting together for lunch one day? If you [...] a
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You may have heard about the amazingly cooperative Kirtland’s Warbler that let itself be seen by thousands of birders during the Biggest Week in American Birding. But did you hear the story of how it was found and how the word got ... Read Post
(transcript of today's For the Birds) On Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, I spent a few hours in the company of some exceptional birds—Kirtland’s Warblers. I saw my first Kirtland’s Warblers in a jackpine forest on June 6, 1976, when... Read Post
Reported at the Midwest Birding Symposium on September 18, 2009: one Kirtland’s Warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, seen that morning in East Harbor State Park near Lakeside, Ohio. Widespread reaction: twitch! One of the keys to a good t... Read Post