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new life birds in London (Ontario)
I spent most of this past week visiting family in the hospital on Western’s campus in London (Ontario). While there, I took the opportunity to walk along the Thames and check out the breeding birds. Many were familiar — Yellow Warblers, House Wrens, Grackles, Robins, Chipping Sparrows, Catbirds, and a Great Blue Heron […]
posted: June 8th, 2008 under birds, meta, nature, new sightings, travel, turtles.
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new life birds on the Delaware Bay
This week we got up early on Saturday to travel to Delaware for the Migratory Bird Festival at Bombay Hook. Our goal was to see new shorebirds, and we were successful, even with the high water remaining from last week’s storms. After getting up at 4:30am, we were on the road at 5:20am. […]
posted: May 19th, 2008 under birds, nature, new sightings, travel, turtles.
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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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new life birds at Patuxent and Lake Artemesia
Since getting the car last week I’ve taken two trips up to the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge to walk the trails and look for birds. Last Monday’s visit was on a rainy day, so I didn’t expect to see much. Not much is still something at a place like Patuxent, though, and the very […]
posted: April 3rd, 2008 under birds, nature, new sightings, turtles.
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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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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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