Category: Science Geek Blog
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Insomnia has it’s advantages…

I was up before dawn recently, and was rewarded by a Cooper’s Hawk fly-by.
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Corvids Carrying Cargo Create Conundrums

Two corvids carry stuff in their beaks, but offer no answers as to what … or why.
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Hummingbird Nesting Material

A broad-tailed hummingbird gathered a tuft of dog fur for nesting material.
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Say’s Phoebe Nesting Material

Say’s Phoebes are birds that flew under my radar for a long time — they aren’t big, they aren’t small, they aren’t flashy, and their song is just two slurred notes. It was the song that eventually caught my ear, and led me to figure out what I was hearing, and seeing. Since then, I’ve…
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Hummingbirds Nesting

I am an opportunistic bird photographer — I photograph them when I see them. That means that late spring, I take my camera with me everywhere. (My husband tells me that presents certain problems, but our marriage survives on the strength of the other 11 months, I guess.) But that means that I had my…
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Windy Mountain Shrub Ecosystem Hike

With the leaf canopy of the big trees fill in and the baby Great Horned Owls fledged, my husband and I decided to take a hike in the foothills west of our house. This hike took us through the Mountain Shrub plant community — the boundary between the High Plains and the Ponderosa Pine plant…




