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An Avian Aphrodisiac
Despite the snow pack, there are some early signs of spring around my bird feeder. A male cardinal is occasionally singing. The chickadees are giving there spring song regularly. The Downy Woodpecker...
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Life is Good
With the warblers long gone now, my favorite singer takes the stage; the northern cardinal. They are permanent residents but begin nesting in the spring and continue through the summer. Their songs...
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Woven of Mushrooms
Crawling on my hands and knees through the thick, stunted forest near treeline, a subalpine forest formation called krummholz, I stumbled upon some fine, black hairs wrapped around a dead Balsam Fir...
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A Gift for Your Sweetheart and the Birds
Birds are at the heart of the modern origin of Valentine’s Day when it was said in the Middle Ages in Europe that the second week of the second month birds began to mate. “For this was seynt on...
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Aves Non Grata – The Blue-footed Booby
Blue-footed Boobies © Jungle Pete I pushed my sister off the roof our house once. I meant no harm. We were simply filming what we expected would be the big winner on America’s Funniest Videos. When her...
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