Saturday afternoon, late January, 2010. Titusville, Florida. I’m standing on the tradeshow floor at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Although central Florida is well known as the home of Disney World, birders here have erected a temporary amusement park of their very own in the cavernous gymnatorium of the local community college. Around […]
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Whoever coined the phrase “anticipation is half the fun” must have been planning a birding trip. With a map of your destination spread out before you – flanked by field guides, checklists, and wildlife refuge brochures – it is impossible not feel the thrill of the chase. Never mind that a winter storm may be
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Imagine following a gently sloping pathway beside a rushing stream on a sunny spring morning. You’re ambling along a forested hillside, thick with underbrush, and the only break in the forest is a small fenced meadow across the stream. Suddenly you hear chickadees and kinglets up high in the trees. Then the warblers and vireos
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Following a Nature Lover: Birding the Charles Kuralt Trail On the Road with Charles Kuralt was a familiar television program to most of us, who watched him introduce unique personalities that he found during his travels across America. A slightly rumpled, easygoing nature lover, Kuralt expressed his deep appreciation for the outdoors best at the
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