Growing Up with The Grebes
~ By Vicky ~ On our woodland birdwatching outings, we often spotted small nests woven into the branches of spindly trees, but the nests...
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birdingunfettered2
Jun 1, 20238 min read
Costa Rica Part 2 - Venturing On Our Own Into A New Region & An Elusive Bird Chase In A Familiar Place.
~ By Sumalee & Vicky ~ The Coast: La Playa Blanca and Chomes After getting our birding eyes primed for Costa Rica with the help of...
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birdingunfettered2
Apr 16, 202312 min read
Costa Rica Part 1 - Central Highlands
~ By Vicky ~ The Road to Monteverde For years we talked and dreamt of international travel. Our passports were renewed and hot off the...
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birdingunfettered2
Feb 26, 20236 min read
What man-made drought looks like: suppressing available water and draining that which rain brings
~ By Sumalee ~ We have to start out with the pictures first, to get the heartbreak out of the way in order to write this story. Here are...
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birdingunfettered2
Nov 24, 20225 min read
Heard but Seldom Seen . . .
~ by Sumalee ~ About a year ago, V. and I were strolling the many straight lanes, once paved gravel roads, of a bygone U.S. Army training...
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birdingunfettered2
May 28, 20226 min read
Adventures on the Atlantic Flyway
~ by Sumalee ~ Some time ago, V. and I made a discovery: the better birders we are, the fewer new birds we see. In our birding infancy,...
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birdingunfettered2
Nov 14, 20214 min read
In Search of Stream Spirits
~ By Vicky ~ The wettest fall followed the driest summer yet experienced in all my years living in Oregon. And yet the lady and I were...
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birdingunfettered2
Oct 29, 20212 min read
Rain or shine is Birding Time
~ by Sumalee ~ You would think that neither of us would look forward to standing around in the rain peering through foggy, wet binocular,...
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birdingunfettered2
Sep 20, 20213 min read
Breakfasting with the American Bittern
~ by Sumalee ~ “The early bird gets the worm” truly exemplifies an early birding foray we undertook recently to William L. Finley...
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birdingunfettered2
Aug 19, 20216 min read
Lunette Débuts At Camano Island
~ By Vicky ~ We went on a long weekend trip to Camano Island, WA to accomplish a few things. Firstly, to visit S.'s mom and see her new...
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birdingunfettered2
Jun 12, 20216 min read
Tribulations of a Bird Feeder
~ By Vicky ~ One of the many joys of home ownership is being able to do what one wants with one's own home and property. For instance,...
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birdingunfettered2
May 28, 20214 min read
In the Catbird Seat, kinda
~ by Sumalee~ We do love birding for its own sake, but a wee part of both of us also wishes for that public affirmation, the imprimatur...
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birdingunfettered2
Apr 29, 20216 min read
Looking For Leks In All The Wrong Places
~ By Vicky ~ The lady and I had some difficult decisions to make: Go to Eastern Oregon for songbird migration, or to Klamath for more...
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birdingunfettered2
Apr 20, 20216 min read
The Great Lesser Sandhill Crane Pursuit
~ By Sumalee ~ We wanted to get out of town and see birds by the thousands: why not Sandhill Cranes? Although S. had seen Sandhill Cranes...
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birdingunfettered2
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Field Notes Timeline
~ By Vicky ~ Prior to making our Birding Unfettered website about our birding adventures, S. and I had wanted to find a way to document...
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birdingunfettered2
Mar 10, 20214 min read
Really, Birding is Safe and Relaxing. Just Mind Your Footing When Getting That Closer Peek.
~ By Vicky ~ We all know that the year 2020 was a wash. Covid was making its mark on the world. For a whole year and counting. Weird and...
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birdingunfettered2
Feb 9, 20212 min read
A Short Tail of Two Tushes
~ By Sumalee ~ We embarked on a hike in Central Oregon that we had attempted before but abandoned due to weekend crowds. Today, a...
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birdingunfettered2
Jan 12, 20215 min read
On the National Wildlife Refuge System
~By Sumalee~ As of this writing, V. and I have been to fourteen National Wildlife Refuges, most of them in Oregon, a handful in...
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birdingunfettered2
Jan 3, 20216 min read
The Bird That Birded Our Brains
~By Vicky~ For fifteen years I have never been able to appreciate the perpetually monotonous grey days of a rainy Oregon winter. Moving...
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birdingunfettered2
Jan 3, 20213 min read
Our Serendipitous Wood Duck Sighting
~By Sumalee~ We like to say that my old dog Laila sent us a blessing of good luck from across the rainbow bridge to finally spot wood...
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