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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Avimor Stewardship Organization

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Here at Avimor take outdoor recreation and conservation seriously. Under the direction of Avimor resident and Conservation Director, Charlie...

ID Help Please!

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While I was putting out more seed to lure in birds for the Big Sit! I saw this bird fly over head and I knew immediately it was different. I...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Product Review: Celestron Ultima 80 Spotting Scope

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My first spotting scope! I got my Celestron Ultima 80 on an internet special for $189 about four years ago. (Unfortunately it was stolen o...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Idaho's Autumn Warblers

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For those of you living at Avimor, you may have noticed today huge numbers of small birds flitting about in the brush along the hillside and...

Avimor's Celebrate Urban Birds Report

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Avimor held its Celebrate Urban Birds event back in May and sent in our report. They are now starting to highlight the various 2009 particip...

Field Guide Review: The Sibley Guide to Trees

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I have long resisted learning about plants and insects because with all the birds I am already so busy looking at I felt like I'd becom...
Monday, October 5, 2009

Getting out of the rain...Turkey Vultures take a breather

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This afternoon as I set out feeders in preparation for this weekends Big Sit! at Avimor, I noticed a scene right out of an Alfred Hitchcock ...

Idaho Birder: Russ Manwaring

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This will be a new weekly blog segment, posted on Monday's, profiling Idaho's best or at least most enthusiastic (thanks Cheryl H.) ...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Ask the Avimor Bird Guy...Nighthawks in AZ

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From Blair A. in Gilbert, AZ (a co-worker and friend of the Avimor Bird Guy. We traded text messages while I was at the IBO with my family, ...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Magazine Review: Birder's World Magazine

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I just renewed my subscription to this awesome birding magazine. I read it word-for-word from cover-to-cover, including the advertising. I l...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Idaho Bird Observatory - Avimor Family Visit

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This morning the Avimor Bird Guy and his family took advantage of the kids being out of school and dad taking the day off work to go up to t...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Avimor Big Sit! - Strategy

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I am pretty confident that I have selected a good site for the Avimor Big Sit! Here is my strategy: Selecting the Site 1. Good long north a...

Book Review: To See Every Bird on Earth

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Sometimes we birders joke about birding being an addiction or a sickness, but for Richard Koeppel it wasn't a joke. This book both fasci...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Moonlight Hike at Avimor

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Please join Avimor's Conservation Director, Charlie Baun, on Saturday, October 3rd for a Moonlight Hike at Avimor. Meet at The Avimor To...

Ask the Avimor Bird Guy...binocular recommendations

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From Jan H. (a new SOB to Tom) in Idaho: My husband is really getting into birding and I need to get a new set of binoculars so I can act...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

When I am Wrong, I am Wrong...dang Sparrows!

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All summer long I have seen a flock of about a dozen sparrow-type birds around the Avimor Town Lake and in the wildflowers on the vacant com...

Video about the Big Sit!

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Field Guide Review: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America

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When I first got into birding while living in Arizona, I cruised on down to the Superstition Springs Center mall and browsed through all the...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Avimor's Owls

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Saturday night, when I finally arrived home from my part-time job at RC Willey and from a quick stop at the grocery store, while unloading...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Welcome Back! - Dark-eyed Juncos

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One of the great joys of birding is noting the coming and going of the migrating species signaling the change in season. A first-of-season ...
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