Weekend Bird Blogging #6

An eclectic weekly collection of recent posts about birds, birders, and birding by bloggers throughout the blogosphere—but mostly from sources other than the mainstream bird blogs—that illustrates the universal appeal and attraction of our feathered neighbors, personally selected by me for your reading and viewing pleasure:

BLOG POSTINGS:


• Being and Bloginess – Birding in the Desert
  
• Color Me Kyra – It’s For The Birds [sounds a little paranoid to me]
  
• Elephas maximus – Sunday Birding
  
• Environmental Almanac – Appreciating Turkey Vultures
  
• GUBO – My world’s gone to the birds..
  
• Iceland—Life on the Rock… - Nesting Season
  
• Improbable Research – Bored of wrestlers, back into birds [John E. DuPont]
  
• Kindling for Him – The ornithological trip that turned criminal! [the kind of behavior that reflects badly on real birders]
  
• Living the Scientific Life – Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches? [book review]
  
• Naturespeak – See Gull? [gulls and baseball]
  
• The Beach – Plovers: Editors and Models “Terrorize” Birds, May Cost Ralph Lauren $$$
  
• The Nature of Robertson – Bird Watching in 1961—a more innocent time
  
• The Nightjar – The Curse of Eugene P. Bicknell Part II
  
• The Real Oregon – The new state record! [Big Day Count]
  
  VIDEOS:
  
  
• Bird Cinema - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper [Ventura, California]
  
• Spaz Video – For the Birds [animation]
  
  FOUND BIRD BLOGS:
  
  
• Birding North Central Massachusetts…and beyond [North American]
  
• Blurred British Birding [European]
  
• East Ayton Birding [European]
  
• NCIOS—North Central Illinois Ornithological Society [North American]
  
• The Blue Chaffinch [European]
  
• West Coast Birding (formerly Gone Birding) [North American]