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    Birding
    Eryn Field, left, and her mother, Carmen Field are getting ready for the 22nd annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival. Eryn, 8, has been in the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival’s Junior Birder program for seven years and will “fledge” this year.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Birding for beginners
    By Michael Armstrong • May 7, 2014 5:20 pm

    Getting started in birding can be intimidating. When experienced birders show up this week for the 22nd annual Kachemak Bay…

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    Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    It’s not just about birds
    By Michael Armstrong • May 7, 2014 5:16 pm

    Already the shorebirds have arrived. Dunlins, dowitchers, surfbirds, sandpipers, yellowlegs, in ones and twos and hundreds they’ve been swooping in…

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    Neil Hayward took the photo of the rustic bunting, left, with a junco, while visiting in Homer.-Photo provided
    Birder achieves Big Year in Homer
    By Michael Armstrong • December 31, 2013 5:39 pm

    A wayward Siberian bird seen last month not only caught the attention of local and Alaska birders, it brought another…

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    Birders grateful for Challenge prizes
    Birders grateful for Challenge prizes
    By Lani Raymond • May 15, 2013 5:53 pm

    The Kachemak Bay Birders would like to thank the following list of donors for providing wonderful prizes for our Big…

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    Joanne Thordarson, left, and Betty Siegel, right, look for birds last Friday at Mud Bay on the Homer Spit.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Birding: It’s for anyone, anywhere
    By Michael Armstrong • May 8, 2013 5:58 pm

    “The birds are always out there waiting for us to notice them,” said Jeffrey Gordon, this year’s keynote speaker at…

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    A common redpoll feeds at a suet block.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Great Backyard Bird Count part of citizen science
    February 25, 2013 1:30 pm

    It began and ended with a murder of crows.Wait — I don’t mean “murder” as in killing crows, but “murder”…

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    January 24, 2013 5:02 pm

    The Kachemak Bay Birders’ next regular meeting is 4:30 p.m. Monday at the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center. Following…

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