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Albatrossity – Spring 2021 in Flyover Country #1 Christopher Mathews – An eruption in Iceland ��BillinGlendaleCA – Elma – South American Fauna �� I bumped one of our regular submitters that I had scheduled for Tuesday (sorry Steve!) so we could have recent pics on the active volcano.  They were submitted just a day or two ago, but it’s very timely, hence being moved to the front of the line. Also, is anyone else planning to send in Paris pics? Albatrossity I have several more sets of pics from Brazil, and I am slowly working to get those selected and organized for future On...

Albatrossity Because I take way too many pictures of hawks, I sometimes get contacted by hawk researchers to get more details about some of the bird images I post on FaceBook or on eBird. This is a great way for me to learn more about the birds and the folks who study them. One of those contacts led to a small adventure in late February, when I had the privilege of accompanying Bryce Robinson and Luke Decicco, of the Red-tailed Hawk Project, on an expedition to trap, tag, and perhaps put transmitters on some of our winter-resident dark hawks. Bryce is a graduate student at Cornell, and Luke i...

Manhattan KSJanuary 8, 2021 Many opportunities for seeing winter birds in Flyover Country or elsewhere are available if you have a bird feeder, and even more are available if you have water for them to drink or bathe in. Cedar Waxwings ( Bombycilla cedrorum) have been scarce so far here this winter (an untimely freeze last spring hit the cedar fruits just as they were starting to develop). But a small flock paid a visit one afternoon, and I got a photo through the kitchen window. Quivira NWRJanuary 4, 2021 Wildlife refuges like Quivira NWR in central KS may not be as birdy in the winter as th...