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Hurricane Irene has passed leaving a huge swath of devastation in her path. My heart and my prayers go out to those in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Vermont who have suffered so much. My own inconvenience seems so small by comparison. But for a birder, hurricanes often turn up many birds in unlikely places, [...]
That was the question I heard as I crossed the parking lot at Todd’s Point in Reid State Park near Georgetown, Maine where I’ve been birding for the past week. The question surprised me, and I turned to my birding buddy and said “Why do we keep building parking lots where birds nest?” That is [...]
On my recent visit to Maine I was determined to see some birds. I went out on the Odyssey, a Whale Watch boat out of Portland, only to have the weather turn quite foggy, the sea choppy, and I got chilled to the bone. I watched in wonder as a Cormorant took on a really [...]
Last time I was in Florida, I was on a quest. See, I had never seen a Florida Scrub Jay and I was on a mission to find it. I was visiting my mom who lives near Tampa, so I went online and searched for every place near there where this bird had been sighted. [...]
Or Have They Been Here All Along? But many people have noted that one of their biggest signs that spring really is coming is that the Robins have returned. But actually, the Robins never really left. They just change their behavior in the winter so we don’t notice them as much….. Read the rest of my post [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by food webs, the cycle of life, and the ecosystem of a garden and how the different species fit together. But I was kind of stunned yesterday afternoon when I took the dogs outside and a large bird lifted off from the deck with something big in its talons and flew [...]
From my post at Birds and Blooms Blog, Hummingbirds have arrived in northern Virginia: I told you several weeks ago that the first Ruby-throated Hummingbirds had arrived at the Gulf Coast from their southern wintering grounds, but by now they are as far north as northern Virginia, so it’s only a matter of a few weeks [...]
My latest post at Birds and Blooms Blog, Tree Swallows Return to the Northeast Tree Swallows are one of my favorite birds because they are one of the earliest birds to return from their southern wintering grounds. When I see my first Tree Swallow I truly know that the warmer, sunnier days of spring really [...]
I had a very strange thing happen to me today. I have a birding friend on twitter who is setting up a birding blogs list: think Alltop for birders. He is a member of a forum that I participate in and he invited members of that group to submit their blogs to this list. Now [...]
…and the bees, and the flowers and the trees. Sorry, that song got stuck in my head when I was thinking about a title, so now you’ll think of me for the rest of the day when you’re humming it Seriously though, my garden really is for the birds. They are the reason that I [...]
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