The Eagle Optics celebrity team, Team Bird So Hard, is busy strategizing and fundraising for the 24-hour challenge in May that is The Great Wisconsin Birdathon.
Because we’re all about team spirit, we are offering a little incentive to anyone contributing $25 or more to our team’s fundraising effort! It is this nifty Eagle Optics Ranger [...]
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Wisconsin Birdathon Bonus!
The Biggest Week in American Birding, May 3-12, 2013
Hey, birders: aching for a little migration action? Right here in the Heartland, The Biggest Week in American Birding gives major migration satisfaction!
This 10-day Ohio festival has it all, folks. Located near the southwest shore of Lake Erie and surrounded by prime birding habitat, Biggest Week provides the ultimate remedy for winter-weary birders. [...]
Midwest Birding Symposium, Sept. 19-22, 2013
Registration has begun for the 2013 Midwest Birding Symposium (MBS) in Lakeside, Ohio! Hosted by Bird Watcher’s Digest, The Ohio Ornithological Society, and the Lakeside Association, the 2013 MBS will once again be the highlight of the birding year!
Don’t miss the chance to learn from experts during informative and entertaining programs featuring some of [...]
Would you like an ABA Membership with that?
Thinking of upgrading your current binocular, or purchasing one to give as a gift? Eagle Optics and the American Birding Association have teamed up to make a special offer: buy a binocular from this select list and get a 1-year membership to the ABA (a $45 value) for just $15. The membership is transferable: [...]
Last post before the Badger Irruption
Freezing rain followed by a snow day; that’s the forecast for the next two days. Great solid duck-concentrating ice has turned to slush (at best) or broken up and flowed out of the harbor today (at worst). Things are getting weird around here and FAST. This has required some rapid changes in game-plan but we [...]
Badgers irruption in the bog
Greetings, intrepid reader! Thanks for stopping by the Eagle Optics blog to read our quick update from the last two days of scouting in Sax-Zim Bog.
Bird-a-thons are all about the numbers: Blue Jays count the same as Cardinals (not so easy this far north!) which count the same as House Sparrows…. to win, you need [...]
Badgers getting the lay of the land
We did some scouting around Duluth today…
and met up with our buddy Erik Bruhnke, a badger at heart living the birder’s dream in Duluth, MN. Sure, he’s got his own team for the BRRRRdathon, but we couldn’t resist hanging out with him; besides, he knows where to find all the local birds!
Lars got really excited [...]
The eagles have landed… err… badgers have irrupted
The first installment of our BRRRRdathon team, the Eagle Optics Badger Irruption, has arrived in Duluth, Minnesota. Jessica Gorzo and myself headed directly to our hotel to set up ‘base camp’ while Max Henschell and Lars Pomara (part of our extended scout team) did some preliminary scouting en route.
While just getting up here was the [...]
What’s a BRRRRRdathon?
You’ve heard of a birdathon, right? A friendly competition of birding teams that take to the field, counting as many bird species as possible, and raising money for a worthy cause. But what is a Brrrrdathon?
Well, if the competition is held in the Hinterlands in the dead of winter, it’s a Brrrrdathon! The [...]
Banded Pelican Sighting Contest
Our friends at the International Bird Rescue (IBR) have been rescuing and rehabilitating sick, oiled, and injured aquatic birds since 1971. Their good work has saved the lives of thousands of these birds, reflecting the organization’s ideology, “Every Bird Matters.” In the past 20 years, over 5,000 Brown Pelicans have been treated, rehabilitated, [...]
