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Category: Birding Basics

How to begin birding or improve your bird watching skills. Learn about the birding year, and identifying species, learn life cycle and behavior.

For beginning birders, what birders are doing, how they know things, and when to bird watch are mysteries. Hopefully, the information provided here can clear up those questions.

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October 22November 30 Donna L. Long

Raptor Workshop at the Academy of Natural Sciences

October 19November 30 Donna L. Long

Hawk Migration at Cape May Point State Park

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September 27November 30 Donna L. Long

Bird Migration Routes – Do You Live Near One?

A Sharp-shinned Hawk perches on my garden fence. Photo by Donna L. Long
September 10December 7 Donna L. Long

Raptor Identification – Best Field Guides

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August 30June 23 Donna L. Long

Garden Flowers to Attract American Goldfinches and Other Birds.

July 7October 3 Donna L. Long

Attracting Birds with Water

Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird at Feeder in autumn
May 17February 28 Donna L. Long

Making Hummingbird Nectar

Canadian Geese in a parking lot
April 17November 18 Donna L. Long

Canada Geese

Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
August 6June 23 Donna L. Long

Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia L.)

Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) in Donna's Garden
June 30November 30 Donna L. Long

Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans (L.)

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