Archive for the 'birds' Category

Birds Sighted

20Jun07

flicker: digging in our lawn
ruby-throated hummingbird: staring at me,  from the opposite side of a glass storm door
turkey:  flushed into flight on Rt. 88, at the old farmhouse near the sharp turn (past the cemetery)
turkey:  ambling down the road across from our deck


Bird Sightings

01Jun07

a pair of cedar waxwings


    Yesterday we traveled to Waynesburg, PA, to attend the annual Sheep & Fiber Festival. On the way there we almost hit a turkey vulture that was trying to get airborne. It had been on the side of the road eating roadkill.
I’d been expecting a gathering akin to a county fair, with lots of varieties [...]


Birds Sighted

19May07

First  sightings of the season:
a pair of goldfinches
ruby-throated hummingbird


Bird Sighting

11May07

a red-tailed hawk (being harassed by two smaller birds)
 
Hawks
Hawks upon the thermals fly
Upward spirals in the sky,
Canvassing the fields below,
Circling endlessly, and slow.
 
Far beneath them winds the creek
Through expectant woods to seek
Union with the Ohio,
And forever southward flow.
 
Here [...]


Birds Sighted

08May07

house finch
red-headed woodpecker
a pair of Baltimore orioles


Birds

01May07

two indigo buntings
hawk
catbird


Barn Swallows

29Apr07

    The barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) returned to our neighbor’s barn a few days ago.


Birds

25Apr07

Sighted:
red-winged blackbird
bluebird
nuthatch
downy woodpecker
towhee
cardinal
and something yellow that was possibly a yellow warbler


Haiku

23Apr07

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