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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Birding Massachusetts One of the original thirteen colonies and home to the city of Boston, Massachusetts is a state with a rich history. Cape Cod, a popular spot for birds and bird-watching, juts into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of the state. Because it is along the Atlantic Flyway, the state checklist boasts
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Reprinted from the September/October 1998 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest. Where in the world—and when—might you find a great cormorant, a surf scoter, and a cave swallow on the same day? Let’s play a game, one birder to another. I’m going to offer a list of bird sightings. You are going to guess where and
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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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