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Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
We’ve been so busy birding during a fabulous spring migration that we haven’t been blogging about our birding!
So it seems hard to believe a week has passed since we headed down to southern Maryland with our good friend Ross Geredien in search of the elusive (in Maryland, anyway) Swainson’s Warbler.
Swainson’s [...]
Chuck Called…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
And all he said was “Chuck-will’s-widow”.
Again.
and Again.
Music that is like whale song to BirdCouple.
Sleeping Sounds….
Wonderful spring sounds…..
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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1st Eagle release of the year
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
The weather was perfect for the first release of the year. There was a private family memorial with the request for a eagle release on the Bird TLC property. Timing couldn’t have been better. We actually had to speed things up a bit so the eagle wouldn’t have to spend too [...]
Phoebes Fledge – And Other Nest News
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Late yesterday afternoon when gray clouds finally broke up into warm, humid sunshine and blue sky, I went out to have a look at the Eastern Phoebe nest – from way below its perch in the elbow of a gutter pipe, just below the roof – and found three big, healthy-looking [...]
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Nest Sits Empty
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The nest made by the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, though, has been empty every time I’ve looked at it for the past several days. It’s been 13 days since I first watched her constructing the nest, and she continued to work on it for at least three days more. On these following days, [...]
Catch Me if You Can (Again)
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
I’m privileged to be speaking at the Boulder Birding Club’s Annual Meeting tomorrow evening (Friday, May from 7 to 9 pm. I’ll be discussing Bird Coloration and The Fascinating Case of Whitey, The Steller’s Jay (a talk on the mechanisms of bird plumage coloration and aberrations.)
The talk is at the Golden [...]
North Park Highlights
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
I trekked up to North Park a couple of weekends ago with my dad. Despite lots of wind, rain, and even a bit of snow, we had gobs of cool birds. If you’ve never been you should go! Here are a few of my pictorial favs.
Sage Thrasher:
Tree Swallow (one of the few [...]
New Baby Bird Moms
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Every year, Bird TLC takes in about 300 baby birds. We get everything from red polls to Eagles. Trying to take care of each of these birds is a huge task that would overwhelm our clinic fast. So the Baby Bird Mom was created several years ago.
Every spring Bird TLC puts [...]
A Bird Landed on my Shoulder…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
My Dad has been quite sick for several weeks. And, for those of you who don’t know my Dad, he is the best Dad on Earth. A kind, practical man with a quick sense of humor. My Dad has always fed my curiosity and was the first to put names [...]
The baby birds are here
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Every year Bird TLC takes in a lot of baby birds of all sizes. We take in everything from redpolls to eaglets. It started this weekend. I went to PET ER and picked up 4 baby birds including the raven pictured here. They are then farmed out to trained Baby [...]
A Scarlet Tanager – Really Singing Like a Robin?
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The highlight of the morning was a glorious and completely unexpected view of a male Scarlet Tanager perched in the top of a pecan tree flooded in sunlight. A red so clear it looked like glass with light pouring through it, and with the ink-black wings there was no doubt at [...]
A Summer Tanager Day
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
A Summer Tanager has been singing in the woods often since its arrival in mid April, and the pik-a-tuk calls of a pair frequently lace through the leaves of the trees around the house, but I hadn’t been able to see one until today. This morning after breakfast, the rumors continued. [...]
Black-throated Green Warbler
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Early in the afternoon, I was sitting out front after lunch for a few minutes – much too nice a day to stay inside – listening to the calls of a Great-crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Phoebe, and a couple of Brown-headed Nuthatches, and the songs of a Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, [...]
Great-crested Flycatcher at End of Day – And the Call of a Barred Owl
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
A little before 7:00 this evening, the weather was warm, murky, cloudy, and humid, and the woods were mostly rather quiet. But a Great-crested Flycatcher put on quite a show at the edge of the woods, flying from low limb to limb, calling whreep in a clear, sharp way, and sometimes [...]
Poetry in Motion
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Birdcouple is heading to far south-eastern Maryland this weekend to look for some secret (and secretive) birds, and have a mad, wacky adventure - brambles, rain, ticks and all.
In the meantime, we were touched that someone thought one of Warren’s photos of a Great Blue Heron walking on ice went [...]
Sometimes the hunted
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
I got a call from Megan at the office yesterday. A gentleman had called her about a sand hill crane in his back yard. He saw an eagle attack it and it landed in his yard for cover. It seems to have gotten a broken leg. The guy was watching it [...]
