A candid shot of the media activity at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival: Steve Moore of Birdwatch Radio conducting another of his marvelous interviews with one of the international birding community’s movers and shakers. Who was he interviewing? Well, I don’t want to “scoop” his work, so you’ll need to subscribe to Birdwatch Radio’s […]
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What’s a Birding Festival Without Birds?
Jonathan Wood and The Raptor Project are always a big hit with those attending the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. Jonathan not only has a superb collection of many of his live "education" birds on display, he presents lectures incorporating them many times each day, and flies them both inside and outside the exhibition hall […]
Sin of Omission
Maybe it was the late hour after a long day busily working at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival; perhaps it was because I was not able to get a good photo of him during the RGV Birds and Beers gathering. More likely than either of these, however, it could simply be because I am […]
New Kowa Genesis 33
Another new optical instrument on display at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival is the latest addition to the Kowa Genesis binocular family – the Genesis 33. Smaller and lighter than the original Genesis 44 (the 8x model of the 33 is reported to be a mere 21 ounces), this new model incorporates a “butterfly […]