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Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
About six o’clock yesterday evening, we were sitting on the back deck, having a drink and listening to the pik-a-tuk calls of a pair of Summer Tanagers in the trees around the edge of the woods, enjoying a brief spell of cooler weather. The female Tanager paused on the branch of [...]
Valdez courting eagle recovering at flight center
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Now known as Lilith (from Cheers and Frasier fame), our surviving gal from a bad courtship in Valdez is now at the Bird TLC flight center. This is her chance to prove to us that’s she’s going to be ready for release or not. She’ll have ample time to build her [...]
Oil Spill update
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Received via Twitter, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service update on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Bottom line, up to 20 National Wildlife Refuges could potentially be affected by the spill, including the Breton Island NWR, the second oldest in the country. Ground surveys at Breton NWR indicate that [...]
Hello from Fairbanks!
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
I’m up in Fairbanks, Alaska for a week of professional development and training for PolarTREC (http://www.polartrec.com). I applied for this amazing program last October, found out I was a finalist a few weeks ago, had a final interview by conference call last Tuesday, and found out that I had been selected on [...]
Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Blue Grosbeak
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Late this morning, as I was walking up a sunny hill wishing I had gotten out earlier because it was already uncomfortably hot and humid, the dry, close full call of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo came from a stand of water oaks just ahead of me – cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk-cawp-cawp-cawp-cawp. Welcome back! One of [...]
Eagle Freedom Flight
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
BE 10-19 came to Bird TLC from Karluk which is on the island of Kodiak. It’s population is about 25. With the bird came a request of returning it to Karluk as long as it recovered OK. Now a days most of us don’t have the money to spend on things [...]
Headin’ Home
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Posting this from DFW Airport, as we wait for our flight home to the East Coast, where the juncos assuredly don’t look like this yellow-eyed fellow.
We’ll be posting more in the days ahead on our amazing Southeast Arizona adventure - the birds; the incredible deserts, canyons, plants and [...]
Happy Earth Day!
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Happy Earth Day to one and all! On Earth Day 2010, we were privileged to see these rare, endangered creatures, two Spotted Owls, roosting in Miller Canyon, in Arizona’s Huachuca mountains. Along with the incredible diversity of other birds, flowers and mammals, we saw today, this Spotted Owl Birdcouple was [...]
Ready to Fledge
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
A buddy of mine recently tipped me off to a really photogenic Great Horned Owl nest along an Open Space trail NE of Boulder, CO. I scouted it on a cloudy day between deluges last week but had better light on my visit today. All of the regular joggers and walkers (with [...]
Magnificent!!
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Maginificent. Just like that Magnificent Hummingbird up there, that is how our Arizona birding vacation has been so far.
Lisa and I have been in Southeast Arizona for 4 days, the last 3 1/2 days, the last 2 at Cave Creek Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains, and our heads are spinning [...]
SE Arizona, Day 1
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
What can we say? Not much after a 20-hour day, that began with a 3:15 am wake-up call to make an early flight out of Washington, DC.
Worth it? You had to ask? First afternoon in Southeast Arizona, spent at Sweetwater Wetlands. 37 species of birds. Eight lifers for Lisa, [...]
New arrivals
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
We’ve been looking for new birds to show up in our yard, now that spring is well underway. But we’ve had a lot of other new arrivals, too. Like this beautiful Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
And this baby Box Turtle that Lisa found when she was getting ready to [...]
What did the Big Flower Say to the Little Flower?
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Hi Bud.
Pictures by Plant Cam!
Time Lapse movie to follow as soon as Blogger starts to behave and let me upload video again.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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White-eyed Vireo – A Different Song
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Late this morning, a White-eyed Vireo sat on a branch in a small tree in an overgrown area of weeds, grass and shrubs and sang a somewhat unusual song. Instead of its familiar chik-a-perioo-chik, this one was singing:
Chik! Meew-chicoree-chik-chik-rasp-Chik!
The mew was very distinct, a good imitation of a Gray Catbird, but [...]
Prairie Warbler
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
In the old field this morning, a Prairie Warbler sang. I was very happy to hear its wheezy, buzzy, rising zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo-ZEE, which seemed right at home among the dense, weedy thickets in the field, especially on a warm, sunny day with pollen and dandelion fluff drifting everywhere, yellow and orange butterflies, [...]
Immature bald eagle hit by truck
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
This young bird came to us from the Anchorage landfill. There’s easy picking for these guys when food is being a little hard to get. With all of the heavy equipment operating there, it’s not the safest place for them to feed or hunt. This guy got hit by a truck. [...]
Great Crested Flycatcher
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
This morning for the first time this season, I heard the throaty, rolling whreep-whreep of a Great Crested Flycatcher – returned from its winter home somewhere further south, maybe Florida, Mexico or Central America. It’s nice to know they’re back. A large, proud-looking flycatcher with lemon-yellow belly, long cinnamon tail, and [...]
Red-eyed Vireo and Louisiana Waterthrush
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
This morning at first light, I was awakened by the surprising song of a Louisiana Waterthrush in the oaks right outside our bedroom windows – three brightly whistled notes followed by a tumble of warbled chirps. A plump, lively warbler with brown back and crown, white stripe over the eye, white [...]
Mixed Feeding Flock, #11
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Lots of good stuff for our occasional round-up of birding and nature news, much of it contributed by McClatchy web editor Tish Wells and other friends from McClatchy’s Washington bureau. They are constantly sending me bird-related news, or asking me bird questions, which is nice.
That photo up there, taken by [...]
A Golden Swamp Warbler
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The woods are coming to life not only with a profusion of lush new-green leaves and lacy white dogwood blooms, but also with the colors and songs of warblers, vireos, tanagers and other returning neotropical migrant songbirds. At this time of April, almost every day can bring something new.
A small, glowing-yellow [...]
Setbacks for surviving eagle in death spiral
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
The surviving eagle from the death spiral in Valdez is being monitored for severe head trauma.
Andrea Gusty / KTVA Channell 11 News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The surviving eagle from the death spiral in Valdez is being monitored for severe head trauma.
In what experts believe to be a mating ritual gone wrong in Valdez, the [...]
Our Black Cherry Tree Would be Unwelcome in Paris…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
But Paris would welcome me with open arms! (Hint to Cute Husband)
I digress.
Apparently, the Cherry Tree (we are pretty sure it is a Black Cherry) which we recently discovered in the LoveNest habitat would be unwelcome not only in Paris, but in most of Europe as well.
According to this article [...]
Shake Hands with Sage
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
A Sage Sparrow dropped out of a recent April snowstorm 4 days ago at Lagerman Reservoir, only about 5 minutes from my SW Longmont, Colorado home. Apparently it likes it there because even though the weather has turned back to sunny and mild, it is still hanging out as of this morning. [...]
Yellow-throated Warbler
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Wow. A brilliantly colorful Yellow-throated Warbler just spent several minutes in a water oak tree in our front yard. It looked magical. The sun had just come out after a thunder shower and briefly heavy rain, the clouds had passed quickly, leaving deep blue sky and new-green leaves wet and dripping, [...]
White-eyed Vireo and Lots of Other Birds – a Spring Morning
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The highlights of a cool, showery April morning here included our first-of-the-season White-eyed Vireo, the continuing songs of a Yellow-throated Vireo, Northern Parula and Black-and-white Warbler, the somewhat unusual tink-tink-tink song or call of an Eastern Towhee, a flock of at least 86 Cedar Waxwings, and an Eastern Phoebe singing and [...]
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