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Wildlife Pond
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ysabetwordsmithThis video shows the birds that come to a wildlife pond, along with various other animals.
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Big year 2025 update
Jan. 5th, 2025 11:20 amlaridianOver the last couple of days:
Current total species: 11
Master list is here: https://laridian.dreamwidth.org/3205815.html
(copied from my post in my journal)
- House finch
- Northern mockingbird
Current total species: 11
Master list is here: https://laridian.dreamwidth.org/3205815.html
(copied from my post in my journal)
Eclipse Pictures
Apr. 8th, 2024 11:51 pmysabetwordsmithToday we drove down to Toledo and Greenup to view the eclipse where totality would last a couple of minutes. We had a nice drive down.
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Green Birds
Mar. 17th, 2024 01:29 pmysabetwordsmithCelebrate St. Patrick's Day with ... green birds!
Birds come in various shades of green. The brighter shades tend to appear in tropical areas, while temperate species are more often olive or yellow-green. Some birds have patches of green as an accent, like mallard ducks.
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Birds come in various shades of green. The brighter shades tend to appear in tropical areas, while temperate species are more often olive or yellow-green. Some birds have patches of green as an accent, like mallard ducks.
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Poem: "The Beauty of Birds"
Feb. 6th, 2024 09:21 pmysabetwordsmithThis is today's second freebie from the February 6, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl on "Twisted Genres." It was inspired by a prompt from scrubjayspeaks. It also fills the "Eggs" square in my 2-1-24 card for the Valentines Bingo fest.
"The Beauty of Birds"
-- a limeriku
The beauty of birds is in eggs,
Those speckled or plain little kegs,
So go to the shore
And find a few more
Tucked under their parents' long legs.
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scrubjayspeaks. It also fills the "Eggs" square in my 2-1-24 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. "The Beauty of Birds"
-- a limeriku
The beauty of birds is in eggs,
Those speckled or plain little kegs,
So go to the shore
And find a few more
Tucked under their parents' long legs.
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Birds Who Paint
Nov. 1st, 2023 04:33 pmysabetwordsmithA falcon lost his ability to fly. Now the bird is an artist in Vermont.
‘He’s a little bird who think he’s a human,’ said Mal Muratori, who works at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.
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‘He’s a little bird who think he’s a human,’ said Mal Muratori, who works at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science.
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Great Horned Owl
Mar. 2nd, 2023 11:39 pmysabetwordsmithA great horned owl is hooting loudly outside my window. :D They do this a lot in autumn and winter.
New year, new bird
Jan. 9th, 2023 12:22 pmdantesspirit
So yesterday, after filling the feeders before the winter storm came in (lots of rain and sleet over night), I decided to see what hits I'd get from the Bird ID app, as the shrubs and trees were loaded. I could recognise a few by sight, still couldn't tell you which is a Carolina Chickadee and which is a Black Cap, and the difference in Sparrows, but I can distinguish Eastern Towhees by sound now.
any way, a new bird popped up! A 'Palm Warbler'. Huh. Ok. Never seen that before. Maybe it's a misidentified bird. So I looked it up to see what they look like in the event I spot one.
Lo and behold... That is definitely an Immature/NonBreeding Adult Palm Warbler. And a female House Finch. That's a new Lifer on the app for me.
There's at least 2. They appear to be the Western Palm Warbler, Nonbreeding Adult/Immature variety. It seems they may still be migrating, or have decided here is a good place to overwinter, due to an abundance of open shrub land, boreal forest with bogs/ponds and plenty of easy snacky foods.
Pretty cool.
