Category: Colorado Mileposts
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Corvids Are Pretty Cheeky, Too
In a couple of recent posts (here and here), I’ve been amazed at how smart Corvids — ravens, crows, and magpies — can be. It turns out they can be pretty cheeky, too. As we walk the dogs in the morning, my husband has taken to listening for the cawing of crow, ravens or magpies…
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Corvids Are So Smart, Part II
My last post was about a Scrub Jay hiding peanuts in our back yard. This post again features peanuts, but another Corvid, this time, an American Crow. Again we start our story with a Crow picking up a peanut from a scattering of them left by a human neighbor. But the Crow evidently doesn’t like…
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Corvids Are So Smart
I was having lunch in the kitchen this noon, and happened to see a blue blur streak past the window. Naturally I grabbed my camera and went to watch. What I saw was a Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay with a peanut (thoughtfully provided by one of my neighbors) hopping around in my drought-ravaged backyard. Scrub Jays…
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Honeybee doesn’t fit, but hummingbird has no problem
Both bees and hummingbirds visit flowers, but flowers can be picking about who gets to move their pollen.
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Hawking Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are nectar-fueled insect-eaters. Now I have the photos to prove it.
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Flicker Excavates A Home
A flicker in the neighborhood spent a lot of time excavating a hole in a maple tree. And then …
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Flower-Eaters
I have noticed something recently — birds seem to be eating flowers. Not just the nectar, or the pollen, or the fruit, but the actual petals. I don’t know if I never noticed this before, or if the behavior is due to the extremely dry winter that we’ve had. The first bird with a flower…
