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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

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Birding for beginners

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

Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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It’s not just about birds

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

Neil Hayward took the photo of the rustic bunting, left, with a junco, while visiting in Homer.-Photo provided

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Birder achieves Big Year in Homer

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

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Birders grateful for Challenge prizes

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

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

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Birding: It’s for anyone, anywhere

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

A common redpoll feeds at a suet block.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Great Backyard Bird Count part of citizen science

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

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Announcements

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