Birding the Northeast

American Redstart

West Virginia: Mountain State Magic

I’d like to think that my affinity for West Virginia, and for its incredible landscapes and avifauna, is in my blood. Buckhannon, West Virginia, is the ancestral home of the Zickefooses, where my great grandfather Benjamin Zickefoose started our line of Zickefoose teachers, physicists, policemen, engineers, writers, and storytellers. Our family lit out for the …

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Birdathon in New Jersey: Afield with the Cape May Team

Reprinted from the March/April 1984 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest. The road is visible in snatches: smeared impressions of highway at the wave of a windshield wiper. Each sweep of the blade grants a moment of safety interspaced by leaps of blind faith. . . .here’s the road . . . here’s the road. . …

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