My new birding friend, Laura Erickson took some fabulous photographs while on the pelagic birding field trip at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival last week. Here’s her blog page for her Northern Gannet photographs. Here’s a teaser… follow the link above for the blog post (and the rest of her blog is fabulous).
Photograph is © 2013 Laura Erickson.
What do you mean, the one without the Gannet? They’ve all got the Gannet!
My new optics for this year are Carson Optical XM 8x42s. My Bushnell BirdLife 8x42s are still functional (in need of cleaning and alignment), but after nearly 15 years of service, I thought I’d try my hand at some slightly better quality optics. We’ll see how they work out.
In this case, I need to restart. As a birder, it’s been a growing source of consternation that I’ve not been able to get back to any regular semblance of birding. I used this year’s Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival to kick things off and get a fresh start. I’ll kick off this blog (whose permanence is yet to be established) with my preliminary bird count (species) this year:
96 so far. I can enumerate them later.
Cheers, big ears.
(I originally miscounted 88)
Lonely Birder 