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About Phillip's Fetching Birds

This calendar grew out of my holiday gift to family and friends. Over the years enough folks have enjoyed it and asked to buy extras to give away for their own gifts that I’m making them available online this year. The 2010 edition marks my 6th calendar of bird photographs.

This year's calendar comes packaged in a clever 4x6 plastic case that opens and folds back into a display stand. There are also less expensive refill packs so you can recycle last year's case or use your own 4x6 frame or fridge magnet. The 12 photos span the seasons with a variety of birds including familiar backyard species such as March's Tufted Titmouse, as well as more rarely seen birds like June’s Common Raven nestmates. Most all of the photographs were fetched in New England and the Canadian Maritimes, though the center of my birding world is Seapoint, in Kittery Point, Maine.

The best camera for the job is the one you have on hand at the time. I often rely on the convenience of a digital ultrazoom that I can carry with me anywhere and anytime.You never know when that rare bird is going come along!

For info and images of what I'm currently fetching, some of which may make it into next year's calendar, visit my daily blog called Bird of the Day, or become a fan of my Facebook page called birdaday.

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