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The Quietness of Crows — The Urban Nature Enthusiast
“Quiet” and “crow” are, let’s face it, rarely used in the same sentence. We tend to think of crows as stridently outspoken and rowdy birds, bringing a racket wherever they go. Crow nesting and fledging time can be especially raucous, with parent crows cawing wildly at fledglings, and at potential threats to fledglings; and the…
The Quietness of Crows — The Urban Nature Enthusiast
A Winter’s Tail Part 4 – The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo — aussiebirder
Before I take leave of posting for a month, when my wife and I go touring the arid Kimberley region in the Far North-west of Australia, I have one more species of Cockatoo to showcase, and this is our most common and most annoying species, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. These birds are our best indicator of […]
A Winter’s Tail Part 4 – The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo — aussiebirder
WHE Take Action to Protect Jackson Mountain (Press Release) — Wild Horse Education
Press Release: Wild Horse Org Takes Legal Action Against Ten-Year Destruction Plan (RENO) Today, Wild Horse Education and founder Laura Leigh have filed litigation to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) […]
WHE Take Action to Protect Jackson Mountain (Press Release) — Wild Horse Education
Great Horned Owls — Second Act — Sonoran Images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. We returned to view the owls two evenings after our first encounter with them. When we arrived we discovered two of the youngsters sitting within a couple of meters of our observation location. These birds quickly, but […]
Great Horned Owls — Second Act — Sonoran Images
Our Tiniest Parrot – The Double-eyed Fig Parrot — aussiebirder
Continuing with some of the birds we saw in our recent visit to Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney, we saw a lifer – The Double-eyed Fig Parrot. This was a bird we pursued when we were last in Far North Queensland, but never laid eyes on. It is a resident of New Guinea, but is also […]
Our Tiniest Parrot – The Double-eyed Fig Parrot — aussiebirder
Burrowing Owls — Adults and Youngsters — Sonoran Images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I’ve posted often recently about the many families of Great Horned Owls in our community. Of course, Great Horned Owls aren’t our only owl species. We have several owl species, including Burrowing Owls. Burrowing Owls evidence the […]
Burrowing Owls — Adults and Youngsters — Sonoran Images
OSPREY, the migratory piscivore — Lee’s Birdwatching Adventures Plus
OSPREY, the Migratory Piscivore Dr. James J. S. Johnson While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22 Migrating birds remind me of what God said in Genesis 8:22, about the predictability of annual seasons. It’s really amazing if you […]
OSPREY, the migratory piscivore — Lee’s Birdwatching Adventures Plus
A walk among bobolinks — Birds of New England.com
Photo by Chris Bosak — Bobolink in New England, May 2022. One of the highlights of the post-spring migration rush in New England is to visit a field in New England where bobolinks nest. Luckily, I have one fairly close to where I live — Happy Landings in Brookfield, Connecticut. The bobolinks’ bubbly song (which […]
A walk among bobolinks — Birds of New England.com
Great Horned Owls — Family Portraits — Sonoran Images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Today, more portraits of Great Horned Owls. My friend Dan, who seems to know where every nesting pair of Great Horned Owls in the Tucson metropolitan area is located, invited me one evening a couple of weeks […]
Great Horned Owls — Family Portraits — Sonoran Images
The Roost 