10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Over the pass, trees turn to pines – one very dark Eurasian Red Squirrel in them – and peaks around us become much higher. Further reading: Central and European Wildlife by Gerard Gorman (Bradt Travel Guides).

Bears 267

Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 267

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

North Carolina 140

North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. I also use the weight sensitive “squirrel proof&# feeders to keep them out of my sunflower seed.

2011 185

2011 Birds Woodpeckers Blackbirds 185