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
