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Chronological Listing - News and special features: April 4, 2007 - Hmmm, it would appear not much has been going on for quite awhile, but appearances can be deceiving. Much has been happening, just not visible things on the web site. I now have a fantastic new 4WD vehicle with room for all my photography stuff, and comfort for those long trips exploring the great outdoors. Over the winter I've added a great new Canon 500mm image stabilized lens and teleconverter, gimbel tripod mount, refitted my small camoflaged "sneak boat", have a new equipment cart to drag my gear along with me into the boonies, and more. Besides all that, I just finished revamping the whole "image gallery" and added great new photos from my fall and winter trips. Now that spring is slowly creeping up, I intend to put my new goodies to great use. For now though, enjoy the "remodeling" job on the image gallery while I look for more things to put there. November 23, 2005 - New photos from an early November trip to the Outer Banks provided enough images for a whole new page and more for the Photo Print Gallery. It also netted four new species and new photos added to the Game Birds & Shorebirds section. September 17, 2005 - Added 21 photos to the lists of Gamebirds & Shorebirds. One new species was included (Northern Shoveler ducks). December 23, 2004 - Added 46 photos to the lists of Songbirds, Gamebirds, etc., and 3 new species (Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Black-bellied Plover). December 20, 2004 - Busy, busy, busy. I've made a major expansion to the gallery of available prints/stock photography. There are now over 180 photos (more than four times as many) available. Prints are no longer limited to just 8x10. Larger prints up to 20"X30" are now available, depending upon the original digital image size. I've also added a new "Notes, Comments & Observations" to Blue Jays that you just have to see. I captured some real aerobatic and acrobatic antics of two jays who were having a time figuring out how to get to the suet in one of my suet feeders. Some of these photos were also added to the galleries. July 18, 2004 - Added photo of a juvenile Eastern Towhee (Rufus-sided). July 5, 2004 - A fresh new interface design is now online for NCBirds.com, and some reorganization is underway. New information for commercial licensing of photos is coming as well. June 23, 2004 - Mystery bird imprints discovered on window: Now believed to be from Mourning Doves, these amazing imprints showed detailed outlines down to individual feathers.
June 17, 2004 - 125 new photos, including 14 new species, have been added (combined among songbirds and gamebirds). 
April, 2004 - A new item called "Notes, Comments & Observations" is being added to some thumbnail lists as time permits. Look just above the thumbnails for the "binoculars" button pictured at right and click it for interesting information about the bird species you're viewing. Feb. 16, 2004 - Lots of new photos and species added. A total of 219 new photos have been added (109 in songbirds and 110 in gamebirds) and 19 new bird species are represented (7 in songbirds and 12 in gamebirds). Plus, the "Gallery" thumbnails are finally up (mostly for songbirds at the moment), but not yet linked to the large preview images. Gamebird photos will be added shortly. Also, the navigation menus were revamped and expanded. |
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Special
Feature -
Defying Gravity:
Blue Jays were swarming my suet cages. In an effort to save something
for the smaller birds, I moved the suet cages away from
adjacent limbs the Jays used for perches. This produced some humorous antics by the Blue Jays, who put on quite a show to reach the suet, even trying to hang upside
down like woodpeckers and nuthatches.
