We're almost there. In just a few more days (Saturday, Jan 24th) we will be competing in Mass Audubon's annual Superbowl of Birding. I've mentioned it a few times, and a few of you readers may have seen posts about it on my teammates blogs as well. The name of our team is the 'Bloggerhead Kingbirds' as we are a team composed solely of bird bloggers. Allow me once again to introduce this team of hardy birders that will be braving New England winter weather to see as many species, and accumulate the greatest point total in a twelve hour period:
Patrick from the Hawk Owl's Nest
Corey from 10,000 Birds
Quintus from the Owl Box Blog
Nathan from The Drinking Bird
and of course, your's truly.
And at this time, I would also like to unveil the brand spankin' new Bloggerhead Kingbirds team logo, generously designed by the good folks over at Birdorable.com:
Come on, how cool is that?!? Amy & Arthur did a great job with this, and I'm really happy with the way it came out. When you're done reading this post, go over to their site and show them some love. Buy a shirt, hat, something with your favorite bird on it.
Some neat facts about this coming weekend's competiton.
- the Bloggerhead Kingbirds will be representing 4 different states; NJ, NY,NC and MA
(I bet we're going to be one of the most geographically diverse teams competing)
- Quintus will be mo-blogging the event to the Owl Box Blog (when we can)
- Nate will be posting updates to twitter (when we can). You can follow it at: https://twitter.com/NC_N8
(I say 'when we can' because this is a competition, and we are serious about winning this thing!)
- some of the big 'sexy' target birds for the team include: King Eider, Black-headed Gull, Ivory Gull, Snowy Owl, & White-winged Crossbills. (And we have every intention of heading north for the cooperative Northern Hawk Owl,but that's not part of the competition)
Have any questions about the competition? Want to just show support for us? Please leave us a comment!
CT - Lesser Black-backed Gull - 02/03
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9 comments:
I'm psyched! It looks like the temps might even head 1 degree above freezing.
I am starting a tour on tomorrow, so I would not be able to track your results but look forward to coming back as soon as possible to read the big news that you have won!
Good luck!
I will be cheering for you. It sounds like so much fun. I hope you do well.
I see folks have been reporting Bohemian Waxwings too. You think we got a shot at those?
This is going to be great!
And, N8, this winter it seems like almost anything is possible...especially as we will be out all day.
Sounds like so much fun. We'll be counting birds on the UC Davis campus on Sunday, there's been a golden eagle around, wish us luck with that!
We'll be thinking about you guys on Saturday, and I'll definitely be checking in on Twitter that afternoon to see N8's progress reports. Good luck, Bloggerheads!
@Gallicissa Good luck with your tour - I look forward to your blog about it.
@Kallen305 Thanks for the support. Nice to hear from another blogger that I read regularly!
@Pica DEF good luck with the Golden!
@Kyle Thanks for the support. Maybe next year you can make it up here too!
@BLOGGERHEADS get ready to rumble! BoWings will be hard for the competition. Better chance for them (along with Pine Grosbeak) if we go for the Hawk Owl.
Best of luck guys. You must have more knowledge of the NH side than most teams, that should be an advantage (not that the winning team from the last couple years has strayed from Essex county).
Think the Plymouth Ivory looks more tempting than the Gloucester one for me, cut down on traffic for you.
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