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As we round the corner of mid-summer, with Labor Day now dimly visible at the horizon, it’s time you got serious about shorebirds.
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The bird was indeed a plover, but not the one they were tasked with watching. This was a Mountain Plover, a scarce species of the high, dry plains east of the rockies, and one that eluded me thus far in my birding career.
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In summer, this decreasingly young man’s fancy lightly turns to bugs. Specifically, the middle weeks of July are when the annual “4th of July” butterfly counts are held.
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It’s now high season for that traditional tourist activity, the whale watch. Us jaded locals probably don’t take advantage of this activity enough, though we live in one of just a handful of places in North America where it’s easy to see whales close to land.
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It’s summertime on the Cape’s beaches, which for me always brings to mind that famous old song about seabirds – Tern! Tern! Tern! At least I assume it’s about the seabirds – it’s by the Byrds, after all.
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This past weekend, the wife and I packed up the kids and headed west, bound for adventure in the exotic lands beyond the bridges. As much as I love the Cape, I need to head to places with richer woods and bigger wildlife now and again.
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In the birding calendar, late June is a great time to sit back, relax and watch some chicks.
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Last week, full of foolish confidence, I declared that migration was over. This week’s report is about various migrants that are still passing through.
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I am officially calling it – spring migration is over. With migrating birds, as with people, there are always stragglers and wanderers who keep things interesting, but for all intents and purposes, it’s now simply breeding season.
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This week on The Bird Report, the connection between horseshoe crabs and red knots.