Bird vs. Fish

Birds of Costa Rica!

These are the species that would be lifers for me, whose ranges overlap Playas del Coco (where we’ll arrive tomorrow)! thicket tinamou least grebe crested bobwhite plain-breasted ground-dove blue ground-dove ruddy quail dove mangrove cuckoo pheasant cuckoo striped cuckoo white-tailed nightjar northern potoo black swift (transient) lesser swallow-tailed swift green-breasted mango plain-capped starthroat Canivet’s emerald […]

UW Arb

We made one last (failed) attempt looking for the goshawk by entering at J1 from the Martin St. lot. We passed through J2 to L8, and cut through to L6. We essentially reversed course back.

Arb

This time, I walked out through the native plant garden to find my partner. We parked at Wingra springs lot to look for the goshawk and made our way down to N5, but unfortunately no luck!

Arboretum

Today took me back to my old stomping grounds! We walked to the maintenance area in order to get to F7-F6. We then went the F4-F1 route to get to A7. We continued on through A4 back to the visitor center. Before we left, though, we passed through the Troia arch into Longenecker gardens for […]

Winter Berry Bog

This was our 1st visit to this part of Sax-Zim Bog! There has been an ermine visiting the carcass there, but we didn’t see it this time.

Feb. Rare Birds – St. Louis Co., MN

On the 1st of each month, I post my favorite historic sightings that occurred within that month in my current county of residence. Enjoy, and good birding! willow ptarmigan (continuing from the December post)

GDAL Rasterize

In this example, I had a shape file I wanted to use as a mask. However, the features were those I wanted to keep. In other words, I wanted to keep all the pixels that had values (i.e. not “no data”) that intersected with the shapes, and set those outside the shapes to 0. Then, […]

Lifers We Saw Together

As Valentine’s day season is well underway (yes, I’m one of those people) I decided to compile a (running) list of lifers that Paul and I saw together! This is the notation… heard only non-native Lifers for Us boreal owl gyrfalcon Smith’s longspur garganey Say’s phoebe rufous-crowned sparrow common poorwill Bewick’s wren greater roadrunner black-capped […]

Jan. Rare Birds – St. Louis Co., MN

On the 1st of each month, I post my favorite historic sightings that occurred within that month in my current county of residence. Enjoy, and good birding! willow ptarmigan (continuing from the December post)

My Favorite Bird Encounters of 2019

The year started with a bang with great looks at my lifer king eider on Jan 2! Then, we had our best ever year guiding the Sax-Zim Birding Festival. We had all of the usual suspect owls in the bog (2/16): great gray, northern hawk and snowy! I have never guided when we had all […]