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A number of bird families deserve special consideration as to the mechanics of their effective capture (photographically) in the field. One of these is the warblers. Though the taxonomists will rightfully distinguish between the old-world warblers (the Sylviidae) and the new-world warblers (the Parulidae), for our purposes it serves just as well to consider any small, fast-moving bird as an “honorary warbler”—just for the present discussion. These subjects can be exceedingly difficult to capture in an aesthetic pose, for a number of reasons which we’ll consider in due course. In this section we’ll focus on techniques for effectively photographing small, active songbirds such as warblers, vireos, wrens, chickadees, nuthatches, and similar species. For many birders, the biggest problem with warblers is finding them and getting close enough to get a good view (and/or a good photograph). In the suburbs of Washington D.C., where I first took up birding many years ago, there are a number of excellent places to go to see warbers during the spring migration. Unfortunately, these tend to be better places to see warblers (i.e., with binoculars) than to photograph them. In many forest settings, warblers like to forage high in the trees, and since the birds are themselves quite small, an enormous amount of magnification may be required to make the bird fill enough of the frame.

Magee Marsh, situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, is a prime stopover for North American warblers during spring migration. Every year thousands of birders, photographers, and nature lovers flock to this location in spring to witness the unforgetable spectacle of large songbird concentrations preparing to migrate across the great lake toward their breeding grounds in the north. Many birders make the trip annually. Some have been doing so for twenty five or thirty years. Magee Marsh is just one of those special places that you have to come back to year after year.

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: CEO, senior execs ‘at every turn chose the most anti-competitive option’

Are the results of this disastrous for Apple’s App Store business? I don’t think so at all. Gonzales Rogers is demanding that Apple ... do what Phil Schiller recommended they do all along. But are the results of this disastrous for Apple’s reputation and credibility? It sure seems like it.

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is used as the payload of a JSON Web Signature (JWS) structure or as the plaintext of a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) structure, enabling the claims to be digitally signed or integrity protected with a Message Authentication Code (MAC) and/or encrypted.

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Home Assistant integration for Bird Buddy smart bird feeders

When enough people ask the same question, it's probably time to write down an answer, especially when your mom asks. And it's this: "Will you be raising your prices because of Trump's tariffs? How much?"

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Fool Me Once I have been keeping a wee .org file of gotchas in the defaults of Go’s various net packages for a while now. I pull it up each time I’m building a service with the standard library, just to make sure I don’t miss something that I have already hit in the past. Let’s call it learning from one’s mistakes where the one in question has a shocking memory.