http://focusingonwildlife.com/news Thu, 17 May 2012 06:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/want-to-join-a-multi-author-birding-and-wildlife-blog-2/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/want-to-join-a-multi-author-birding-and-wildlife-blog-2/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 05:00:01 +0000 Supertrooper http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10564
Do you have an interesting wildlife story to share, images or videoclips you’d like to share on-line? If the answer is “YES” then we invite you to join our “Multi-Author Birding and Wildlife Blog”. Please follow this link to learn more out about our invitation.]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/want-to-join-a-multi-author-birding-and-wildlife-blog-2/feed/ 0 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-pine-in-the-backside-or-valued-wildlife/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-pine-in-the-backside-or-valued-wildlife/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:53:34 +0000 Ewan Miles http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10696 [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-pine-in-the-backside-or-valued-wildlife/feed/ 0 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/living-alphabet/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/living-alphabet/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:42:43 +0000 Rick Lieder http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10758
A slave to plant cryptography, she feels the garden’s myths pass through stems, a living alphabet of growth. • Eastern black carpenter ant | Camponotus pennsylvanicus]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/living-alphabet/feed/ 0 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/california-gull-with-nesting-material/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/california-gull-with-nesting-material/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:29 +0000 Mia McPherson http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10480
A little over a week ago I was photographing a perched Loggerhead Shrike on Antelope Island when I noticed a California Gull (Larus californicus) flying towards me with a bill full of something that didn’t look like food. As the gull came closer to me I could see that it was some type of vegetation [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/california-gull-with-nesting-material/feed/ 0 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/cedar-waxwings-binge-on-blueberries/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/cedar-waxwings-binge-on-blueberries/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:23 +0000 Supertrooper http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=9879
Like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, The Birds, birds are threatening this season’s Florida blueberries. In the 1963 movie, thousands of birds seemingly for no reason begin attacking people in a small town along the northern California coast. In Florida this year, errant cedar waxwings, which like eating berries, are attacking fields of [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/cedar-waxwings-binge-on-blueberries/feed/ 2 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/the-brilliant-baltimore-oriole-icterus-galbula/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/the-brilliant-baltimore-oriole-icterus-galbula/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:42:21 +0000 Carol Duke http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10669
The Baltimore Orioles are back and busy nesting already. The male’s song floats over trees and shrubberies filling the spring sky with a glorious clear tone unlike any other songbirds trills or tweets. Both the male and female sing and when they are annoyed they kvetch with a rattling, scratchy cry. First Spring 2012 Sighting of [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/the-brilliant-baltimore-oriole-icterus-galbula/feed/ 3 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/birding-in-japan-yellow-browed-bunting-emberiza-chrysophrys/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/birding-in-japan-yellow-browed-bunting-emberiza-chrysophrys/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 14:09:56 +0000 John Andrew Wright http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10662
Spring migration has been underway here in the southern part of Japan since mid-March and we have seen quite a few rarities making landfall briefly as the wintering birds make their way northwards toward their breeding grounds in northern China and the Russian Far East. Many birds travel between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/birding-in-japan-yellow-browed-bunting-emberiza-chrysophrys/feed/ 0 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wild-turkeys-in-new-jersey/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wild-turkeys-in-new-jersey/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 00:49:15 +0000 Julie Feinstein http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10579
Flocks of wild turkeys are a common sight in southern New Jersey. It’s a relatively new phenomenon and it’s fabulous to see them! There were no wild turkeys in the state between 1850 and about 1950. The historically abundant birds were locally extinct. It is thought that some wild turkeys from Pennsylvania may have colonized [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wild-turkeys-in-new-jersey/feed/ 3 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/ohpoop/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/ohpoop/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:20 +0000 Mia McPherson http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10278
Yes, poop happens. If there are birds there is poop. That is the straight poop… I mean scoop! Some birds poop in mid-air which it is always wise to have your mouth closed when photographing birds directly over your head. A wide-brimmed hat is kind of handy too. I’m glad this Royal Tern banked when [...]]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/ohpoop/feed/ 2 http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/bent-on-misadventure/ http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/bent-on-misadventure/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 16:46:51 +0000 Rick Lieder http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=10558
Bent on misadventure, a streaming squadron of bees dissolves into the sun, unhooking their anchor to my garden. • Honey bee | Apis mellifera]]> http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/bent-on-misadventure/feed/ 0