My Amazon Fire Stick must be figuring me out because its “movies you might like” prompts alerted me to “The Big Year,” a 2011 comedy about a trio of birders who obsessively pursue as many sightings as possible. Appropriately, the odious villain — Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson) — is a Jersey guy. As the movieContinue reading “Obsessive and competitive: ‘The Big Year’ birding movie”
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Who are those guys? Lessons from the backyard bird count
The Great Backyard Bird Count was on last weekend, and I did my part, logging all the familiar birds that visit regularly. But there was one trickster in the mix, and it took me a while to figure out that this particular bird breed had fooled me once again. On Sunday morning, I logged inContinue reading “Who are those guys? Lessons from the backyard bird count”
The Jersey Birder 