Tag: birds
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Along the Creek
The Front Range of Colorado — the area west of Denver — didn’t get hit with the cold and snow that the eastern part of the country did this week. But we did get ice bells. And birds.
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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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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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Birds and Bunnies
An American Goldfinch has been at the feeder for the past two days. Thirty years ago, I saw one of these guys and thought somebody’s parakeet had escaped. Researching what it was started me on a lifetime of bird watching. White-breasted Nuthatch making off with a sunflower chip. If you look closely at this shot,…
Amy Law, Science Geek 