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Seventy percent. 23 Aug 2013 | 08:48 am
Low clouds, steady drizzle. This Midwestern wildlife preserve has the feel of a rainforest. Heavily overgrown, shadowy and damp. There are no birds. That’s okay. It’s August. It’s raining. You don’t ...
The desensitized bird watcher. 17 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am
C’mon. A common Cardinal is a knockout. It’s not officially called a “common Cardinal.” It’s officially known as a Northern Cardinal. But just the same, it’s pretty common. Actually too common, and ...
Leave it to beaver. 10 Aug 2013 | 03:48 am
Today, a neighbor said we’ve got beavers. No smartass reply welcome. The guy was serious. Some trees were gnawed, and might fall. We live near water. Nice to sit at the end of the day and look at thi...
Wanderlust. 3 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
In the woods, you see a Phoebe. Reminds you of a dog named Phoebe. Good times. Further down the trail: coyote scat. Reminds you of studying coyotes and collecting this in baggies which you kept in th...
July has a winner. August has a thrasher to find. 31 Jul 2013 | 05:25 am
July’s Hidden Bird Contest should’ve been called a Hidden Birds contest. You had to find at least three Scarlet Tanagers in the wilds of our website. Turns out it wasn’t that hard. Two reasons. A Sca...
A lot of bird. 25 Jul 2013 | 08:16 am
You don’t see a lot of birds in midsummer. Today, it was midsummer with a vengeance. Quiet. Just sun and bugs. Trees heavy with green. Tall grass in the prairie. But there was a Red-tailed Hawk circ...
Bottom Line. 21 Jul 2013 | 09:37 am
Marc Davis is a guy who lived in El Paso with Roadrunners, and in Greenwich Village where he once saw a vagrant Sooty Tern. The fact that something was sooty (or vagrant) in the Village wasn’t unusua...
That’s no bird. 16 Jul 2013 | 09:58 pm
When you’re out in the deep woods, you might focus on a woodpecker, and discover there’s a porcupine on the next branch. Or you look at vultures picking at something in a clearing, and notice that a ...
Pitchers and Turkeys. 10 Jul 2013 | 06:44 am
Watching baseball on TV, you think: why does yet another pitcher have an overly long goatee? The idea hits: Must be a survival adaptation. A major league distraction to the hitter. Hell, if you’re f...
The F-word. 4 Jul 2013 | 08:15 am
You don’t think much of flocking birds. You’re a lone hiker, someone who never cared to be part of a crowd. You stare at a flock of Starlings, a flock of geese, a flock of Cedar Waxwings in a berry t...
