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Award-winning author: The Crossley ID Guide Series, The Shorebird Guide and Ornitherapy.

Del Haven, NJ
Joined November 2010
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Just spent a month watching migration around beautiful Side (s Turkey). Ruins, shopping, restaurants, architecture & ambiance; loved it. Check the leather jackets ladies...
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great to be home with my remarkable parents (93 and 90 years young). Time is precious. Lots of time with Sam, Sophie, family and 2 Orcha's. Turkey next for migration.
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A great year of simplifying life. Santa comes to my house every day - 1000s of birds; beautiful colors & patterns. I talk to most family and friends today - so lucky. I hope you can feel fortunate too and have a wonderful Christmas.
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Ahead of his Friday night talk at #MigFest2025, @CrossleyIDGuide shares what makes Spurn so special, why migration still stops him in his tracks, and why MigFest is unlike any other birding weekend 🗓️ 12–14 September 🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/3T5Q9Ks @_BTO
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10 weeks in SEAsia. Great wildlife; even better people. It’s great to escape.
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5-10k in vismig each morning the last 3 days at my place N of Los Angeles. A tiny snippet - it's bloody insane!
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Just a tiny bit of my love life in the mountains north of Los Angeles.
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Back to my old stomping grounds. 50k birds today - what a christening for the new house.
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3rd spring watching daytime migration in mtns N of LA. Fridays flight was massive (20k) and 1000s lot of days - follow Daniels Tejon Pass count on trektellen.org. Night flight also big and low When there are few birds, the scenery and flowers are okay…
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Even on Lake Wort Beach pier it is cold this morning. The often spectacular sunrise is a panorama of wild cloud formations. A great way to start the day. Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Apologies to those who were not aware that I am at the Río Grande Valley Birding Festival. Today is the last day. I will be in San Antonio tomorrow morning and Kerrville tomorrow evening and Tuesday; Tucson Thursday. Hope to see you at one of these events.
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1st time keynoting at Hummerbird Celebration in Rockport/Fulton. Great festival - hummingbird show was truly spectacular. Port Aransas tonight was jammed with birds - between 5-10,000 Black Terns was amazing. A LTJA & SAGU were brilliant surprises - fitting end to a great weekend
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1st time keynoting at Hummerbird Celebration in Rockport/Fulton. Great festival - hummingbird show was truly spectacular. Port Aransas tonight was jammed with birds - between 5-10,000 Black Terns was amazing. A LTJA & SAGU were brilliant surprises - fitting end to a great weekend
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Aug soft-man’s Carnival pelagic from LA to Puerto Vallarta Mx. New boat. Excellent. FaLots of Masked, Red-ft, Brown plus a few Nazca. Almost constant Storm-Petrels - Leaches-types, Townsend’s, Black, Least and Wedge-r. 18 Cook’s 1 Tahiti Petrel. Shear’s incl Wedge-t. 10 RTTR.
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Western Birds, Waterfowl and Ornitherapy are now available on Amazon in Canada and Mexico. Sorry Europe - perhaps one day!
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3000 WETA yesterday, and probably nearly as many on Friday plus 1000’s of other migrants. Smaller no’s than last year - but it’s not too late😀.
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1000 Western Tanagers an hour over this grassy slope (Tejon Pass, CA). Same yesterday.
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Tejon Pass 1500-2000 Western Tanagers, 200 WEKI, 200 LABU Thursday. Another big flight today. Surprisingly small numbers other local fav sites. High winds dropping birds out of sky??
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