As a kid, when our family took car trips, my 3 siblings and I always played The Horse and Cow Game. It was a game we devised to keep us amused while the miles rolled away, and it kept my parents sane–at least temporarily. Once the game was declared, we’d scan the landscape with [...]
Archive for October, 2011
We’re honored to be honored!
We at Eagle Optics were tickled, recently, to learn we had been recognized as the Best Online Optics Retailer for 2011 by the fine folks at bestbinocularsreviews.com. If that weren’t cool enough, our Ranger ED 8×42 binocular won the distinction of Best Birding Binocular! We are grateful for the recognition and even more so, [...]
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, Nov. 9-13
The famed Rio Grande Valley, at the southernmost tip of Texas, boasts the biggest concentration of tropical birds in the U.S. Its diverse habitats are home to birds and wildlife seldom seen in one place, and the area is well known to birders around the world. If you’ve never been there, it might [...]
Bring Up Baby (Monarchs)
My friend Tammi rears Monarchs. Her hobby of collecting the eggs, caring for the caterpillars, and releasing Monarch butterflies has grown to the point that this summer she tagged and released 178 of them! So in early August, when I found a tiny Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant in my garden, I [...]
