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The “Big Year” is a bird photography project that takes place over the course of 2018.\u00a0 After attending a seminar at REI on birding in the Lake Tahoe area, I joined the birding activity that is being coordinated by the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science<\/a> (TINS).\u00a0 This is sort of a contest to see which birder can observe the most unique species of birds during the course of one year.\u00a0 Of course, photographing the bird sighting\u00a0is not strictly required by TINS, but for me to document what I’ve seen, as well as enhance my bird identification and wildlife photography skills – I consider a photograph a strict requirement. So every bird I claim to have seen (and have logged on the TINS site) will have an associated photograph on my website.\u00a0 Please note that this means not all the photos may be of the quality I’d enter in a camera club competition or that I’d offer for commercial sale.<\/p>\n If you are interested in learning more about the Big Year project being run by TINS, please refer to the Tahoe Big Year<\/a> website.<\/p>\n Click on any blog entry below to get the detail of that day’s field trip and what birds I saw.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Sample Image” src=”https:\/\/www.judyduffyphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JDP-TBY-20181207-9010.jpg” _builder_version=”3.17.2″ custom_margin=”||5px|” custom_padding=”50px|||” show_in_lightbox=”on” title_text=”Click on image to zoom.”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″ custom_padding=”0px|||” text_font_size=”14px”]<\/p>\n Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Cove East \/ South Lake Tahoe, December 2018)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Misc Page Pointer” _builder_version=”3.5.1″ custom_padding=”10px|10px|10px|10px” box_shadow_style=”preset6″ custom_margin=”20px|||”]<\/p>\n