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A winter miscellany

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So though I visited Lynford, I didn’t see a Hawfinch on this occasion as I wasn’t there at the right time, though I did meet a number of hopeful Hawfinch hunters (HHHs), none of whom reported a sighting. Marsh T**s are far less numerous than Blue T**s, and despite their name aren’t particularly keen on marshes.

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Patch: An Urban Red-tailed Hawk (3 of 4)

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(Check out Part 1 here) (Check out Part 2 here) This hawk was a fierce hunter. She ate everything from Rock Pigeons to caterpillars, earthworms to Brewer’s Blackbirds, but her staple diet consisted of plump, toothy, charismatic, and abundant Pocket Gophers. Patch was focused and deliberate, consistent and inventive.

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First Phoebe of 2011

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Sunflower Seed Mafia Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night… About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Joseph Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:17 pm “who is right? Wicked, right?

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Duck Migration

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# Wicked, right? What a spectacle indeed. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. A hard-working Chinese Blackbird almost certainly already incubating its second brood is certainly not a target customer for a La-Z-Boy. Accessorizing for birds. These birds have too much taste.

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What is the National Bird of Denmark?

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Red-winged Blackbird in Flight Flight Of The Ancient Mariner About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right?

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Holy Island, Northumberland

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Even the car park was busy with Common Blackbirds, European Goldfinch, Goldcrests and European Robins. . The causeway really does go right under water when the tide races in and you really do not have any choice other than to wait for it to go back out. Thousands of Geese on the move on dusk. Eurasian Curlew.

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