By Miles This spring break, my family and I went on a fantastic birding and sightseeing trip to California’s Central Valley and the south-central coastal area. Some of the areas were fantastic but also a bit confusing, so I’d like to share some tips for birding at the Pinnacles National Park and Pfeiffer Big […]
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By Miles This spring break, my family and I went on a fantastic birding and sightseeing trip to California’s Central Valley and the south-central coastal area. * The articles about this trip will be divided into three separate blog posts: D1 – the Forest of Giants, D2 – Condor of the Pinnacles D3 –
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By Miles This spring break, my family and I went on a fantastic birding and sightseeing trip to California’s Central Valley and the south-central coastal area. * The articles about this trip will be divided into three separate blog posts: D1 – the Forest of Giants, D2 – Condor of the Pinnacles D3 –
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By Miles One day in the fall of 2022, my dad and I saw an interesting piece of news about the Blackburnian Warbler. The article mentioned that a rare Blackburnian Warbler, which had been amusingly translated into Chinese, was discovered on an island in England. Birders were renting boats and waiting overnight just
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By Miles Today is the first Bear Divide day of the year. Although there weren’t that many birds, we did see a Rufous Hummingbird (flying through super fast like a bullet, couldn’t get any photo) and Swainson’s Hawk that we hoped would be flying over. Bear Divide is a flat area in
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By Miles Today, my dad and I drove to the Chilao Visitor Center in the Angeles National Forest. We were looking for the special birds often spotted there – the White-headed Woodpecker, Pygmy Nuthatch, and Hairy Woodpecker. We first went to the visitor center, got some interesting things, and asked the staff where to
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By Miles Today, my dad and I drove to the South Coast Botanic Garden based on an eBird report of a rare bird, the Northern Parula. When we got there a birder was coming out. She told us which tree she saw it feeding on this morning. It was a very big coral tree
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(This article was previously published in my WeChat Publication on February 3, 2025) By Miles Today is the sixth day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Snake, and another year has unknowingly passed. Over the past year, I have ventured into the world with my binoculars and camera and experienced an “important
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(This article has been published inWrentit-Feb 2025) (The WRENTIT is the newsletter for the Pasadena Audubon Society.) By Miles In the fall of 2021, I learned about birdwatching in my natural science class in Beijing, China. A few months later, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, my father and I took our
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