Midway Comes to The ABA

Almost all of Midway's birds can be seen performing bizarre, humorous, or elegant courtship displays at some point during the year. Terns are well-known for their graceful, synchronized courtship displays...in the sky. These Sooty Terns were doing synchronized dancing on the ground. I've never seen anything like it, before or since.

Midway Atoll is one of the most incredible places I've ever been, and a large part of that is due to the birds there. With Midway Atoll now within the friendly confines of the ABA Area, I just had a new piece on Midway's seabirds published in ABA's Birder's Guide to Travel. Click on the cover and flip to page 32 (you can access this whether you are an ABA member or not), or if you are an ABA member it should be mailed to you imminently if you don't have it already. I'm chuffed that the ABA wanted to put it out, take a look!

I've probably posted this White Tern photo at some point in the distant past. If not, I'm sorry it took so long.  Holy shit this image gives me the warm fuzzies...this was in my backyard on Midway.

Where Would We Be Without The Songs That We Love?

Snowy Egret. Martinez, CA. Just thought you'd like a Snowy Egret.

Hey kids. Seagull isn't here today. It's me....Felonious Jive. Goddamn, it's nice to have that son of a bitch out of here for a change. Dude gets on my nerves. Anyways...BB&B is proud to announce it's very own Seagull Steve has a blog up at the American Birding Association's page. You can look at it here. It's a true story, filled with fear and loathing and all that good stuff Seagull is going on and on and on...and on about.

If youre a nonbirder (yes, Seagull knows those people, somehow), I should explain to you what the ABA is. Seagull writing on the ABA blog is like some dumbass baseball fan getting to write on ESPN's blog about how the Angels are going to take it all this year (they obviously will not). It's like your redneck uncle who claims Obama was born in Kenya and immigration should be illegal is suddenly given his own show on CNN. Its like your friend's crazy hippie mom who prescribes weird herbs for every possible malady suddenly becomes a neurosurgeon. What I'm saying is that he doesn't belong there, he's out of his league...yet, there he is.

That's about all I've got to say. Oh, I'm also a better birder than he is, and way better looking.

Love,

(The Great Ornithologist) Felonious Jive