Archive for the 'birds' Category
Birds Sighted
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
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Bird Sightings
a pair of cedar waxwings
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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 [...]
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Birds Sighted
First sightings of the season:
a pair of goldfinches
ruby-throated hummingbird
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Bird Sighting
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 [...]
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Birds Sighted
house finch
red-headed woodpecker
a pair of Baltimore orioles
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Birds
two indigo buntings
hawk
catbird
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Barn Swallows
The barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) returned to our neighbor’s barn a few days ago.
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Birds
Sighted:
red-winged blackbird
bluebird
nuthatch
downy woodpecker
towhee
cardinal
and something yellow that was possibly a yellow warbler
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