The fine folks over at Eagle Optics have been providing awesome binoculars to birders for many years, but today they have released a new product to help those of us who are primarily yard birders see more species.
Presenting, The Dump in a Bag from Eagle Optics:
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After the crazy weather we've been having we were out of almost every variety of seed. The birds have been sitting in the trees glaring down on us, accusingly wondering what had happened to their food. So while we were in the area we were finally able to stop ...
Well, the peanut feeder mentioned previously has lately been under attack by the Tufted Titmice (Baeolophus bicolor) in the yard. While I haven't seen any Blue Jays (Cyanocitta cristata) on this feeder, they have been around.
Anyway, it appeared as if most of the peanuts had been attacked on ...
Continuing the efforts to bring Blue Jays (Cyanocitta cristata) into the yard, we stopped by the local Wild Birds Unlimited shop last night and picked up one of their ring-shaped peanut feeders. Hopefully this will bring some Jays to the feeder without also bringing a horde of squirrels.
Thus far ...
Okay, so not an award so much as a win in a contest, but it is the season of A Christmas Story and I couldn't help but to hear the exclamation of The Old Man when he won the famous leg lamp as I read the email from Ray ...
In response to my query in re: searching, I received a response from the Lifebirds Journal developers in which they acknowledge that the issue that I am experiencing is a known issue. However, they state that it is due to a bug in IOS 8 whereby, rather than seeing the ...
Today, while trying to enter a few birds into the Lifebirds Journal app, I thought I had finally gotten the hang of searching. It seemed that if I entered no more than three characters, that the search would work. This image shows the difference between entering three and four characters ...
While certainly not seeing the volume of birds I would expect given the colder weather, we did have a few species in the yard today, including a First of Season Dark-Eyed Junco, and a new bird for our yard, the House Sparrow.
We see the Juncos throughout the winter, but ...
I normally use the BirdLog NA app from BirdsEye Birding for tracking my bird sightings, predominately since it reports directly to eBird which then tracks my lifelist and allows me to generate a variety of reports as to my activity. But having heard several folks recommend the Lifebirds Journal app ...
Since the birding activity in my yard lately has been slow, at best (possibly due to the black cat which is often found perched in my driveway starting up at the feeders), while I am inside I have kept one of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Cams up on ...
