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Determined confusion

May 08, 2020 - This year, it looks like the Baltimore Orioles are going to hang around. They've been with us more or less constantly si...
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Trouble in suetland

May 05, 2019 - As if we didn't already have enough trouble keeping the suet cage on the tree... We know that squirrels will sometimes e...
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Bully no more

January 29, 2019 - One of the great truths of the playground... and sometimes of the natural world... is that if you stand up to bullies, t...
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Re-arrival

January 22, 2019 - I'd seen a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at the suet feeder at the very end of last year, but while I was trying to figure ou...
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Avian harvester

October 27, 2018 - If yesterday's bird on the lawn was something of a mystery, this guy on a White Pine stem is an absolute certainty. The...
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Woody is back

January 15, 2018 - I heard the woodpecker long before I saw him... and that's hardly surprising. Pileated Woodpeckers, our largest local me...
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Suet robber

December 29, 2017 - Periodically, the suet in the suet feeder disappears mysteriously, and, on occasion, the feeder has vanished as well. Us...
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Guess who's coming to dinner?

March 12, 2017 - The sun came out grudgingly after the unexpected storm departed, and in its wake was great cross-country skiing, bitter...
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Snowy visitor

March 10, 2017 - Ah, March. Yesterday was butterflies and amphibians; today is cold and heavy snow. Incipient spring is back in hiding an...
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First creeper

February 07, 2017 - The beginning line of yesterday's post—"this is not the picture I wanted"—could easily do for today. But this time, the...
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Species of happiness

January 13, 2017 - The weather today was gray, hard, and cold, and while I managed to get in a walk anyway, there was very little of intere...
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Small visitor

February 12, 2016 - The infamous Polar Vortex settled in overnight with a dusting of light snow and genuinely Arctic temperatures... well, f...
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Uncommon commoner

February 10, 2016 - I don't know where the Blue Jays have been all winter, but they sure haven't been hanging around my backyard, where the...
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A splash of color

December 17, 2015 - If I can't get too far afield in the natural world these days, I'm eternally glad that I can still bring nature fairly c...
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Harbinger, perhaps

February 14, 2015 - Valentine's Day dawned almost unbelievably cold... well, for our neck of the woods... and it was pretty chilly indoors a...
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Jeepers, creepers

February 05, 2015 - It's possible we've had Brown Creepers at the suet feeder for most of the winter, but if so, they've certainly made them...
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