Category: birds
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Quacker has a Visitor from the Wild 😀
I had fed Mr Flowers out the front then walked to the car, around the back, to go into town for my morning visit to my MiL and as I drove round the drive Quacker quacked loudly to me from a puddle in the back drive way. Goodness you move fast Quacker, I said –…
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The Cardinals have Come Back
I don’t know where they go at the end of summer but they always disappear late summer then reappear for the winter and spring when they nest in the high trees. I sometimes wonder if they are escorting their teenagers off the property. Though that feels a wee bit Grimm – a tad Hansel and…
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What bird builds a nest like this?
This birds nest is way up high in the old elm tree, can you see it? The nest seems to be almost suspended on a curving branch that looks a bit like the boot of Italy. It looks so precarious there. And that branch does not look strong. The nest is tall – probably about…
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Do you know what This Bird Is?
As the trees grow in our wilding areas so too do the bird populations. We are in Illinois, just about 100 miles South of Chicago and many of our birds fly South for the winter. And now they are coming back. And this tiny brown and white speckly bird, about 4 inches long I think…
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Dawn Chorus – In Surround Sound
The bird song sounds of the dawn caught on video. There are a short few minutes just as the sun is rising when all the birds put aside their differences and pipe in the light. They rise onto their toes in the trees and sing their tiny generous hearts out. As the burning colors of…
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