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Winter Robin is Back!

Winter Robin is Back!

February 1, 2016December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein 1 Comment

On Friday afternoon, before the big snowstorm started, a robin showed up at my window. When I opened it to throw a few raisins on the porch for him, he swiftly flew to the work surface on the side of the barbecue grill that’s right next to the window. That’s where I fed a winter […]

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Grackle Pros and Cons

Grackle Pros and Cons

January 3, 2016December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein Leave a comment

Common grackles stay in New York year round. I saw one the other day, striding around on its long legs and looking cocky. Whenever I see one I take a moment to admire its glossy colors. I usually see a single bird in a park, or just a few at a time — they look […]

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Breakfast Flock

Breakfast Flock

December 16, 2015December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein Leave a comment

In Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach wrote about a gull that “… was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.” I watched a flock of gulls dashing and darting at the outflow of an open watergate, feeding on something in the roiling water. I couldn’t […]

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Dabbling for Dinner

Dabbling for Dinner

December 7, 2015December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein Leave a comment

These Canada geese are tipped over and reaching down with their long necks to gather food plants from the bottom of the shallow pond. The one that’s right side up in the back is a designated sentinel; that’s a goose thing — they take turns watching for danger. Every time you look at a flock […]

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Cicada Killer

Cicada Killer

October 26, 2015December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein Leave a comment

At about an inch and a half long, the cicada killer is one of our larges wasps. Their huge size makes them look dangerous, but they are usually not aggressive and do not often sting us. They are solitary wasps that live alone; they lack the hive-defending sting-whatever-comes-close attitude of the yellowjackets they are sometimes […]

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Admiring a Great Blue Heron

Admiring a Great Blue Heron

October 20, 2015December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein Leave a comment

I was admiring this photo of a great blue heron and its shadow when I remembered the poem “Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond” by Mary Oliver:           So heavy is the long-necked, long-bodied heron, always it is a surprise when her smoke-colored wings open and she turns from the […]

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Time for Cape May

Time for Cape May

October 12, 2015December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein 1 Comment

Hawks are migrating now and one of the best places to see them is Cape May, New Jersey. Lots of the birds flying down the Atlantic flyway get channeled into the southern tail of New Jersey and end up concentrated at Cape May Point. They often wait there for weather favorable for the flight across […]

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It is the end of September already!

It is the end of September already!

October 4, 2015December 23, 2019 Julie Feinstein Leave a comment

I am on vacation. Here’s a poem by Sara Teasdale entitled September Midnight:           Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper’s horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The […]

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