#latergram: Wild Birds at the Detroit Zoo, April 2024
The Detroit Zoo features a wild colony of Black-Crowned Night Herons, and this gallery features a number of photos of them — the first time I've ever seen one on the wild! …
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Birding
Recent Birb Friends
Birding Blog Posts
How I share Bird Buddy photos online
I've developed a simple and fast workflow, along with several purpose-built pieces of software, for sharing Bird Buddy photos online here. I had several goals for this process:
1. Photos should be shared to a Lychee photo album on my picture-sharing subdomain
2. Uploading the photos should be …
Someone please Photoshop a “Phantom of the Opera” mask onto this grackle for me
Thank you. …
Know Your Birds: Red-Headed Woodpecker
The Red-Headed Woodpecker is, at least here in Michigan, a commonly misidentified bird.
My eBird Profile
I have finally learned how to use eBird properly and started using it more seriously!
Birds in Moab and Arches & Canyonlands National Parks
My partner Thu and I recently spent about a week in Moab, Utah and the national and state parks that surround it. This is a (probably incomplete) list of birds we identified during the trip.
My (Only) Two Complaints about the Canon 10x42 L IS WP Binoculars
I have previously written a glowing review of Canon's 10x42 L IS WP binoculars. And I stand by it! After using them heavily for a while now, though, I have two minor complaints.
Stabilization LED Color
When image stabilization is on, a green LED lights up on top …
Letter of Recommendation: Quality Binoculars
Over the past year I have tested a bunch of different binoculars; in this post I share recommendations for *good* binoculars at three different price points.
Some recent bird photos
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Photo sequence of Bald Eagles hunting, from Nov. 2022
In November of last year, I was lucky to observe a lot of bald eagle activity around a lake near my home. (In total I observed 5 eagles: 3 adults and 2 juveniles.)
Content warning: this post includes photos, from a distance, of a dead bird.
One Saturday morning, I …