10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. Cape Coral has a remarkable population of Burrowing Owls , cute little stilt-legged beasts we usually associate with the western part of the continent. But daytime owls always look miffed about something.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 218

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. million-year-old early human. Probably not.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 187

Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

2011 170

2011 Deer New York Peru 170

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. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds. Wicked, right?

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140