Savannah Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
By: Pat Coate
Love the thistle – was fun to try to get this guy with such a beautiful backdrop. Taken at Piney Tract in Pennsylvania.
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Roger Tory Peterson Birding Festival Part 1
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
By: Pat Coate
On June 10-13 the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY held its second birding festival. The days were filled with wonderful field trips led by incredible guides, and workshops by some of the top men and women in the field. I feel very lucky to have this opportunity so close to home and I really, really enjoyed myself (I sense a certain son of mine will shake his head as he reads this – and speaking of shakes, we felt the tremors from the 5.5 earthquake centered near Ottawa, Canada on 6/23, a first for me).
The yellow-billed cuckoo shown above was one of the many (over 50?) species seen on the Woodchuck Hill field trip. It was a crowd pleaser, giving the whole group an unusually long look. It seemed to many attendees that there are more cuckoos around this year, likely because of the abundance of tent caterpillars.
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