The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog

The aim of this blog is to promote birding activity in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Birding on the Labrador Sea

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Currently early in a month long stint on a seismic ship working in the Labrador Sea. It is nice to be in a place other than the usual North...
Sunday, 18 August 2013

Common Ringed Plover at Renews, Newfoundland 16-18 Aug 2013

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On 16 Aug 2013 Ken Knowles picked out a suspicious plover at Renews beach, Avalon Peninsula .  His photos were circulated among local birde...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Big Banded Semipalmated Plover at Renews

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On 27 July at Renews there were a few shorebirds including four Semipalmated Plovers (SEPL).  One had a notably broad breast band. It was m...
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Monday, 29 July 2013

St. Vincents terns in the Fog

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Saturday birding around the Southern Avalon Loop was mostly a drive in very dense heavy wet fog.   The sunny weather, high temperatures and ...
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Sunday, 21 July 2013

Will there ever be enough Common Loon photos?

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Is there a species with more books devoted to it?  Who has not seen enough Common Loon photos???  I am one of those. But when my chance cam...
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Saturday, 20 July 2013

Bird Photography from a Car

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  It is Day 3 of my return to planet earth after 36 days at sea off the east coast of Newfoundland. Takes a while to get used to the lush...
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Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Leach's Storm-Petrel photo salon.

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DAY 28 OF 35 AT SEA.  Shearwaters and storm-petrels are tough to photograph well from ships.  They do not come close enough.  Best chance...
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