Hi there, LIVE from the Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, OH. So it turns out I was wrong about the availability of internet connectivity up here - this place has wi-fi to the gills! Anyway, I'm sitting in the South Auditorium on the Lakeside campus next to Sharon Stiteler (aka
Birdchick), with Mike Bergin only (
10,000 Birds,
Nature Blog Network) feet away. They gave a talk yesterday about nature/bird blogging, where Mike apparently gave me a shout-out - but I, unfortunately, was not in attendance at his talk, so hopefully he didn't say anything BAD about me!! (Kelly, back me up here, okay?)
Anyway, this morning, I went to a bird banding demo at the
Black Swamp Birding Observatory, where I saw many beautiful birds in the hand, and got quite a few life birds, as well! I don't have those photos downloaded yet, but here are some shots taken Thursday evening from the pier near our hotel.
Bird cruise... that I did not go on...
Gulls are all over the place, which you might imagine at a lakeside location.
Look up, and you are likely to find a gull perched on a post of some sort.
Gull sunset
6 comments:
Keep us posted Heather as we can't be there. Great photos.
...I recognize that gull on the right.... :-)
Had a blast today. Glad we went out to Magee Marsh even if it did get a little dark a little quicker than we thought it would! (Nice gull photos!)
Beautiful pics Heather. Looks like the weather couldn't be better!
I think I recognized Liam and Phoebe Thompson on the upper boat deck.....
I just happened to come across your blog, wonderful photos. I love the birds.
I enjoyed meeting you at the MBS, Heather, and tried not to tarnish your name.
Carol - Wish you could have made it, would have loved to have met you! I've got plenty of material to post from the weekend, so stay tuned!
Kelly - Those gulls... they all look alike! ;) I had fun at Magee, too, and I'm glad we had at least one good find (don't want to give anything away for the other folks!).
Ruthie - Yes, the weather was amazing - not a drop of rain the whole weekend, and perfect temps. You are correct about the Thompson children on that boat deck. They did a great job entertaining themselves over the course of the weekend!
Eileen - Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and commenting. There's many more birds to come, so I hope you'll stop by again!
Mike - It was good to meet you too, and especially good to meet someone from the NBN in person. I trust that you were kind to me during your blog presentation! ;)
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