10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2018
White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. I have observed this species many times (my eBird says 28 times this year alone) and never had one landing near me. …and
Critter News
MARCH 31, 2009
The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. If humans insist on wars and invasions, we should keep them to ourselves and leave other species out of it. But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 14, 2008
It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Frizzell explained that a large population of feral cats is ultimately detrimental to the overall environmental health of the base, its native species and ecosystems. Tags: spay and neuter quantico military feral cats. Whiskers" or "Frisky?"
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. A trip to the coastal plain may net you up to seven species of warblers, from the omnipresent Yellow-rumps to Chats and Cape Mays.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2021
January is the month where I allow myself to go only to my very best sites, and rejoice in even the most commonplace species. I correctly suspected that Lake Cuitzeo would be too dry this year to give me its usual 75+ species in the deep of winter. (It But Las Mesas did indeed come through, with 79 species.
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. They might eat it if they have to but it can sometimes keep those species away too. Tags: Bird Feeding , feeder birds , feeders , grackles , starlings • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?
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