Loose Feathers #202

Yesterday my laptop's screen started doing its best impression of a dead cuckoo. The good news is that I have an older computer I can use in the meantime. The bad news is that most of the material I had gathered for this week's Loose Feathers is on the laptop, without an easy way to retrieve it with two-thirds of the screen blacked out. So instead of the usual bird news aggregation, this edition just includes some of the interesting bird blogging that I have come across this week.

Birds in the blogosphere

• The Drinking Bird: A follow-up on the Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher post
• Yips and Howls: Great Horned Owl: Species of the Week
• Coffee and Conservation: Shade coffee farmers attitudes towards wildlife
  
• Nature Observances: Birding in Washington DC
• Birdchick: Big Surprise, Snowy Owls Are Not Good Pets!
• The House & Other Arctic Musings: American Pipit (Anthus rubescens)
• Prairie Ice: Shorebird Season
  

Carnivals and newsletters

• Scientia Pro Publica #10
• Birds in the News #181
  

Bird bloggers visit Queens

• Great Auk or Greatest Auk: Flocking Behavior
• Somewhere in NJ: Telltale
• 10,000 Birds: Bird Bloggers Invade Queens, or, New Jersey Cursed No More
• Picus Blog: Saturday Birding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
• birdspot: aug 24
  

Unfortunately I missed this gathering because I mistakenly assumed the downpour we were getting in Central Jersey would be replicated in Queens. Hopefully I can make the next meetup.