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Yellow-rumped, safe for work
October 09, 2020 - Although the weather doesn't seem to be encouraging birds to migrate, there's at least some evidence of a changing of th...
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Spotted, well, spotted
August 05, 2020 - Today's journey took me down to the millpond, an old favorite destination, in the hope of communing with Cardinal flower...
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Homebodies
February 20, 2019 - The Canada Geese are starting to gather into huge flocks by the farm pond and the surrounding silage corn neighborhood,...
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New avian arrival
February 18, 2019 - I heard the first "oonk-a-ree" calls of the newly returned Red-winged Blackbirds today as I paused on my cardiac-rehab-p...
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The other kinglet
November 06, 2018 - There's heavy rain in the forecast—yet again—and while the deluges, if they in fact arrive, will no doubt keep my photo...
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Yellow-rumped return
October 24, 2018 - As I noted yesterday, at least one songbird, the Eastern Phoebe, is loathe to leave. But with a nice traveling wind and...
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Not yet ready to leave
October 23, 2018 - The Eastern Phoebes are, most years, among the first songbirds to make it back to our neighborhood in spring, and even,...
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The impossible season
May 25, 2018 - Every birdwatcher will probably admit that he or she went bad on warblers, those brightly colored jewels of the woodland...
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Tea drinker
April 29, 2018 - Just like you're not supposed to have a favorite child—or, at least, you're not supposed to admit you have—devotees of a...
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On the Monarch move
September 24, 2017 - Summer just doesn't want to quit, and with the temperature in the upper 80s this afternoon, I finished up the work that...
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Concentrated
March 07, 2017 - There's been the slightest break in the cold, but the shallower stretches of the local farm pond—the one I now hike to o...
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Earwig protector
October 16, 2016 - It hasn't been all that fine a season for migrating warblers, and maybe that's for the best. To paraphrase an immortal l...
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Panorama and close-up
October 15, 2016 - Before I dropped my granddaughter Stasia off for a much-hoped-for sleepover at Auntie's, I wasn't able to interest her i...
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A maybe migrant
October 07, 2016 - All modesty aside, I am not a world-class birder. Nor, as viewers will certainly attest, am I a world-class photographer...
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Waiting for a sign
September 17, 2016 - For the past few days, the woods have been alive with young Phoebes. They're quiet, unlike their incessant ratchety call...
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Early migrant
September 15, 2016 - I've always billed this blog as an account of natural history discoveries I've made and documented on my daily walks. Bu...
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On the beach
September 12, 2016 - I know that, a la Louis Pasteur, "chance favors only the prepared mind"—or photographer and naturalist—but hey, sometime...
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Flight plans
September 03, 2016 - In years past, when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, sometime during Labor Day weekend, you'd often see the first fl...
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Friendly phoebe
October 13, 2015 - Some "journeys of discovery," as I've often called my daily excursions on foot, require going the distance, or, at least...
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Going south
September 26, 2015 - It wasn't exactly the best of beach days, but I needed to get out of the house and explore someplace new, so, since the...
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A flock of killdeer
September 21, 2015 - A couple of dusks ago, I heard the first Canada Geese honks, and I thought I might be graced by the sight of flocks of t...
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