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Bird Ephemera: Dr Evil Stole My Mojo
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Sunday, January 12, 2014. Dr Evil Stole My Mojo. I woke up late today, surprised by an unusual sight coming from my bedroom window. Is it.could it possibly be? The sun was out! I'd almost forgotten what it looked like. Temperatures and a snowstorm, followed by everybody's favorite: freezing rain. A perfect excuse to stay inside, reading and making languid trips to the kitchen! It must be.Dr. Evil! I think I have 21...
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Bird Ephemera: A poem...for passenger pigeons
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. A poem.for passenger pigeons. 2014 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon, a captive female named Martha. As I have a weird obsession with these extinct birds, it's safe to say I'll be posting about them over the coming months. Here is a poem in their honor. I hope you like it:. Lately I’ve been reading about Buddhism,. Drawn by fantasies of.
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Bird Ephemera: Missives from the Bamboo Front
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Sunday, December 22, 2013. Missives from the Bamboo Front. My backyard when we moved in. It's been a while since I whined about the bamboo taking over my back yard. That doesn't mean I've forgotten about it, though.or my goal to turn my yard into a mostly native planted Avian Haven. The past few months have resulted in a stalemate, but as of today, the war's back on! How naive I was! How uninformed and foolish!
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Bird Ephemera: May 2015
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Bird-tastic fiction: novels about birders, ornithologists and other avian obsessed folk. This is my favorite genre, so I'll start here). Christine Goff has a series of five "bird-watcher's mysteries": A Rant of Ravens, Death of a Songbird, A Nest in the Ashes, Death Takes a Gander. And Death of a Birdie. And protecting a southeastern swamp from development in Death of a Birdie. Speaking of ...
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Bird Ephemera: January 2015
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Saturday, January 3, 2015. New Year, More birds. My New Year's birding was, therefore, somewhat abbreviated, as I got chilled to the bone shortly after arriving at the park, and didn't warm up again until I was snug in bed again that night. Chattering teeth and shivering limbs do tend to scare the birds away, as does my whining about the cold. Even so, I did manage to get in a few good birds, including:. Eustace Le...
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Bird Ephemera: Year List 2012!
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Are indicated with bold. First sightings in Illinois. Are indicated with italics. 9 American tree sparrow. 13 Great blue heron. 26 Eurasian tree sparrow. 34 Greater white fronted goose. 51 Black crowned night heron. 57 Eurasian collared dove. 63 American black duck. 78 Great horned owl. 86 Blue winged teal. 92 American white pelican. 108 Black necked stilt. 113 Long billed dowitcher. 119 Broad winged hawk. Eustace ...
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Bird Ephemera: January 2014
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Sunday, January 12, 2014. Dr Evil Stole My Mojo. I woke up late today, surprised by an unusual sight coming from my bedroom window. Is it.could it possibly be? The sun was out! I'd almost forgotten what it looked like. Temperatures and a snowstorm, followed by everybody's favorite: freezing rain. A perfect excuse to stay inside, reading and making languid trips to the kitchen! It must be.Dr. Evil! Maybe it's a pers...
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Bird Ephemera: February 2014
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Saturday, February 1, 2014. My Winter of Discontent. Common goldeneyes never whine about the cold.unlike me. To add slippery white stuff to my list of woes, it also keeps on snowing. I thought. I'm well on the way to becoming an agoraphobic old lady with an animal hoarding problem. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome Page - As the Crow Flies. Dewitt County Big Year 2014. View my complete profile. Fra Fillipo Lippi,...
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Bird Ephemera: September 2013
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Clinton Lake.the Evil Dead Access. OKthis didn't really happen. It's the weekend of the fall equinox, and I could not have asked for better birding weather- cool, sunny, the blue sky full of fluffy fair weather cumulus. Hey, a good birder can admit when she is wrong! Wellred-necked phalaropes, black terns, and American avocets! For some reason, choice birds love it back there. This weeke...
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Bird Ephemera: October 2013
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Reflections on birds, nature, and life in general from a bird-watcher in central Illinois. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me? I recently finished Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me? More Answers to Common and Not-So-Common Questions about Birds and Birding. By Mike O'Connor, a book in the same Q&A format as his previous volume, Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches? They are both fun reads, but I have to confess I didn't buy either one. I read Woodpeckers. Well, now I have another option before r...
