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new life birds at Lake Artemesia and Patuxent
In order to try to catch sight of some of the migrating warblers coming through this area, I visited Lake Artemesia at what seemed like an unreasonably early — and cold! — hour this morning: 7:00am. When I first arrived, only the larger birds were active: Cardinals, Blue Jays, Robins, Mockingbirds, and Starlings were […]
posted: April 17th, 2008 under birds, nature, new sightings, pond, turtles.
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visits to Lake Artemesia
In an effort to get out into nature more, we walked to Lake Artemesia twice from our house in the weeks before our trip.
The first time, we took a meandering route, first heading to check out the new condos going up in Hyattsville. From there, we walked over to the river, and followed that […]
posted: August 22nd, 2007 under birds, nature, new sightings, pond.
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wild irises at University Hills pond
On Sunday afternoon, I took my recently repaired and returned to me babycam up to the University Hills pond. This past week irises have popped into bloom all around the banks of the pond, which pleases me greatly. Irises are my favorite flower, and yellow is my favorite color, so I couldn’t have […]
posted: May 21st, 2007 under nature, pond, turtles.
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new life birds & hatchling turtles at the pond
Today was another beautiful day at the pond. I went around midday this time, and saw three more life birds! This is the first time I’ve actively tried to catch species on their spring migration, and so far I have to say it’s been well worth the effort.
Before I reached the […]
posted: May 6th, 2007 under birds, nature, new sightings, pond, turtles.
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new life birds & repaired lifelist
This past week has been a full one: I’ve added a half dozen new birds to my lifelist, sighted in or near my town! Over the past few days I’ve spotted a Lousiana Waterthrush, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, and Yellow-rumped Warbler, in Wells Run, the creek that runs through University Park. A few weeks […]
posted: May 4th, 2007 under birds, meta, nature, new sightings, pond, university park.
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Caspian Tern
Yesterday I returned to the pond for the first time in a couple of weeks. In a stroke of luck, I timed my arrival to coincide with the presence of a single Caspian Tern, a bird I’d never seen before. Although I don’t always, this time I had my binoculars and Peterson’s with […]
posted: April 15th, 2007 under birds, nature, new sightings, pond.
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catching up with the local pond
I didn’t know when we bought this house that I would be getting a local pond as part of the package, and I count myself very lucky.
The pond is about a mile from our house, with a paved path encircling it that is about 2/10 of a mile around (it’s a small pond). […]
posted: January 2nd, 2007 under birds, new sightings, pond, turtles.
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