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Category: Wildlife
Quiet Nature Preserves Have Their Busy Days
We have a small nature preserve in town named The Helen Carlson Wildlife Sanctuary. I like to stop in for a quick look around whenever I’m in the area. During my last visit their was a Red-shouldered Hawk calling out keyeer keyeer keeyer from the top of a pine tree just as I was getting […]
A Woodpecker Visit
This bird was too big and noisy to miss — about a foot long, and announcing its presence with repeated loud calls of kyeer as it eyeballed a little pile of raisins and peanut bits I had left on a fence post for the cardinals and robins. Although flickers eat mainly insects, they also take […]
Feature: Sawgrass Lake Park Pt. II
Back at the main parking area at Sawgrass Lake Park Tom Obrock and I chose to follow the birders seen earlier. We would learn that the trees along the entrance to the park had warblers dripping off of them in preceding days. That was not so apparent initially, but waves of warblers did eventually pass […]
Snow Leopard Ghost of the Frozen Climbs
The spirit of the mountains high Of beauty surpassing The clouds in the sky His quiet serenity As he prowls His terrain Safe from all humans And their capacity to cause pain.
Wheatears and Wagtails at Landguard
A nice morning at Landguard NR in Suffolk where the place was alive with Wheatears, Willow Warblers and Wagtails with both Yellow and Pied in the dozens feeding and getting ready for the off. I found a couple of Lesser Whitethroat and Common Whitethroat before fly overs from both Common Buzzard and Sparrowhawk. Common Tern […]
Ratona grande (Thrush-like Wren) Campylorhynchus turdinus
Cómo se disfrutan las pajareadas cuando uno puede cumplir con un objetivo propuesto!!!!!!!!; hoy temprano a la mañana fuimos con Roby y Lucho a la Reserva Itá para aprovechar la mañana libre, al menos yo recién entro al colegio a las 11:20 y había tiempo mas que suficiente para sentarse a esperar a que aparezca […]
Yemen Thrush – Tanoumah
Whilst birding the Tanoumah area in summer 2016 I saw a good number of Yemen Thrushes Turdus menachensis including a pair of adults feeding a very young juvenile on the ground. I am not certain if the bird could fly as it was very young but the parents were in close attendance and hopefully it […]