of the beauty! Think of the learning opportunities!
If you want to learn how to attract birds, butterflies and other creatures to your backyard, the National Wildlife Federation has lots of guides. On their site, they'll help you create
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Off in the distance near Mud Lock on the southernmost tip of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Seneca Falls a woodpecker rapped a steady beat into a hardwood tree.
The staccato beat sounded more like a drum roll, and, seemingly on cue one morning last week, an eaglet poked its head above its nest on a tower overlooking the lock below. Under its mother's watchful eye, the baby eagle fluffed its downy feathers before settling back into the family nest and disappearing from view.
Scott Stipetich, a refuge wildlife biologist, marveled at the eaglet sighting. It was the first time that he had seen a baby eagle at the nest this year. Last year, a pair of eaglets at the nest wasn't spotted until the first week of April. The refuge has at least five nesting pairs.
"It's been that kind of year so far," Stipetich said, smiling.
The unusually mild winter and summer-like start to spring has birds making babies earlier than usual and has jump started the bird-viewing season at the 7,000-acre refuge.
Birds of winter as photographed by volunteers Jerry Cannon, Doug Dawes, Nikki Nisly and Bob Roach.
But in the stark branches I saw what I thought to be "winter birds" - birds I don't know from my warm season sightings or that I don't recognize in their winter feathers. The bird in the two photos above and the three below was loving the abundance of bittersweet. I invite readers to help me with the identification of the birds in this post. I heard few bird calls.
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Carving & Painting a Northern Cardinal The winter bird usually puffs up its feathers to provide more insulation and thus appears stockier. Note in the photos of winter birds how the breast appears fuller than that of summer birds. Also, the primary flight feathers are not ... |
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Feeding Winter Birds ... cut down on the amount of light passing through the glass, and the tint will slightly affect the color values of photos taken through it. ... Scraping at frost or wiping away vapor is a waste of time and frightens away the birds. |
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Carving Miniature Wildfowl with Robert Guge Most likely there are fleeting images of birds that are run and rerun through his thoughts as he develops a composition. He does have some ideas on what he describes as winter birds. They are stocky, sometimes fat. |
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Pennsylvania birds Two of the Iceland Gulls were second-winter birds, one of which was nicely photographed at Riverfront Park on 17-Feb (see Plates 4 ... Finally, on 16-Feb and 18-Feb, it was seen well before dark and good photos were made by G. Malosh, ... |
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Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava Plates 19–21, photos 115–156, 171–174 Synonyms: Motacilla lutea, ... Sexes separable in summer plumage, many adults also in winter plumage, but first-winter birds usually impossible to sex with certainty ... |
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Pondering the raven: Dark, inquisitive birds that ward off interloping hawks The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, offers a really nice series of photos, including one of a Red-tailed Hawk mixing it up with a raven, on its All About Birds website, www.allaboutbirds .org. Look for ravens anywhere from the outskirts of |
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Birders on top of their game On June 1, Pat Summers brought the hummingbird that spent the winter being looked after at the Wild Bird Care Centre out here to Orchard View in Greely for release into the wide world. She carried his large cage over to my garden where the feeder is |
Beauty and the noble beech
We were surrounded, too, with the sounds of birds and running water, and stepping into that forest was like entering a cool, refreshing, sweetly scented hall. And there were so many flowers! Carpets of violets and huge patches of white anemone spread
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Newtown Square Photographer Displays Nature Photographs at Local Coffeehouse Kreitzberg's photos are bright and extremely detailed. Her work does tend to showcase more of a summer/spring environment, but she took advantage of this past extreme winter by photographing the birds that congregated around the her backyard feeders. |
Green diary rescue: Delay in toxin regulation will kill
Below is a warbler quiz — I've included a lot of photos of warblers. In every case, you can click on the image to get the information about the bird. It also gets you to a larger version, but see if you can ID some of the birds without looking.
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