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Category Archives: Birding
Three for Thursday: Winter Gifts for your Backyard Birds
If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you already know how much we love our backyard birds. With the colder weather upon us, food and water become scarce and we like to give them a little winter … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard birds, bird bath heater, eliminate nuisance birds, food, homemade bird food, suet, water
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Three for Thursday: Fall Visitors
During the summer our yard is filled with Bluebirds, Killdeer, Swallows and Finch. Now that the summer is over, we’re starting to see some of our favorite fall/winter birds. Here are three of our favorites. Downy Woodpecker We don’t see … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Living
Tagged Bluebird, Dark-eyed Junco, downy woodpecker, Killdeer, migration birding, Swallow, White-Crowned Sparrow, winter birding
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The Bluebird Diaries – Late Summer Visit
I’ve been having bluebird withdrawal since our second 2012 bunch of babies left the nest box back on August 1. We haven’t seen them since then, which is not unusual. But I’d been wondering about them lately. This is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Backyard Birding, Bird, Bird Babies, Bird nest, Bluebird, Bluebird Babies, Bluebird Diaries, EABL, Eastern Bluebird, Nest, Nest box
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Late Summer Update
At about this time of year I get excited for autumn. The second half of summer is always a challenge for me. I love the beginning, but I get weary of the heat, the mosquitoes, the weeds, and the lack … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Gardening, Living
Tagged american goldfinch, birds, bumble bee, flowers, goldfinch, hibiscus, queen anne's lace, robin, summer, wildflowers
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The Bluebird Diaries – 2012 Wrap Up
Our 2012 bluebird nesting season is a wrap! In our area, bluebirds produce two broods per year. We’d like to thank everyone who followed along with our coverage. We had a blast watching them (and I’m missing them already!) If … Continue reading
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Tagged Backyard Birding, Bird, Bird Babies, Bird nest, Bluebird, Bluebird Babies, Bluebird Diaries, EABL, Eastern Bluebird, Nest, Nest box
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The Bluebird Diaries – Vol. 2 No. 20 – Fledge!
If you followed our first 2012 bluebird nesting you’ll remember our mixed emotions when it’s time for the babies to leave the nest. On one hand we’re thrilled when they make it, sometimes seemingly against all odds. On the other … Continue reading
The Bluebird Diaries – Vol. 2 No. 19
Last time we showed some funny pictures from Day 11 of our baby bluebirds’ young lives. Unfortunately Day 12 starts the period where looking inside the nest box is ill-advised. The babies are mobile enough to leave the nest, but … Continue reading
The Bluebird Diaries – Vol. 2 No. 18
These pictures, from the babies’ Day 11, are by far my favorite! We’ve been taking pictures of baby bluebirds for years and these are the funniest I can remember! The babies are quite mobile now which makes for some blurry … Continue reading
The Bluebird Diaries – Vol. 2 No. 17
Our baby bluebirds are growing like weeds! These pictures are from Day 9 of their young little lives: And, here are some pictures from Day 10! The daily change is always amazing to me. More from Day 10: Unless otherwise … Continue reading
The Bluebird Diaries – Vol. 2 No. 16
We’ve got pictures from days 7 and 8 for this post. In case you’d like to catch up, here are a few recent links. (Or, you can find the entire second-nesting series here.) Hatch Day (includes two short videos) Day … Continue reading
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