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One Jackdaw Birding: 8/1/12 - 9/1/12

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Thursday, August 23, 2012. End of Summer Birds. Summer is winding down. The first cool nights are here. The bird population in our yard is changing. I haven't seen any Robins for some time doing their running, stopping and listening for worms in the ground. It's oddly silent except for the raucous cries of the Blue Jays and Crows. I still hear an occasional Gray Catbird,. Though, giving its cat-like calls from deep inside a shrub. This one is was sitting out in the open and was about to launch into flight.

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One Jackdaw Birding: Vanishing Whip-Poor-Wills

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Thursday, June 6, 2013. When mentioning to friends that I'd never heard the call of a Whip-poor-will, I'd get the reply more often than not: "Oh yes, I used to hear them but don't remember the last time I did". Last year when I wrote a blog post on the Montague Sandplains. In Western Mass., I had heard about their presence there, but hadn't stayed late enough to actually hear one. I was determined to do so this year. The Montague S. Sand delta formed by melting glaciers. The Whip-poor-will is listed as a...

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One Jackdaw Birding: 5/1/12 - 6/1/12

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Monday, May 28, 2012. Red Knots, Skimmers and Oystercatchers. On my trip to Cape May for the Maygration. Birding Festival I had hoped to see many warblers, but the timing was off. Because of the warm winter migration was early. By the time we started looking most males had established their local territories and had stopped singing, making them hard to find. However there were large numbers of shorebirds and seabirds. I was thrilled. To see Red Knots. Harvesting horseshoe crab blood involves collecting a...

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One Jackdaw Birding: 2/1/13 - 3/1/13

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Sunday, February 10, 2013. Three authors: Birds up close and personal, and Magpie passes mirror test. For crows living in flocks fosters complex behaviors. Just when I was learning to read I found a book in our attic which promised to teach me the language of birds. It was torn in half though, and the half with the answers was missing. So to my great disappointment the language of birds remained a mystery. How they interpret what goes on around them? Or what they are thinking. Are they even conscious.

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One Jackdaw Birding: 6/1/13 - 7/1/13

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Thursday, June 6, 2013. When mentioning to friends that I'd never heard the call of a Whip-poor-will, I'd get the reply more often than not: "Oh yes, I used to hear them but don't remember the last time I did". Last year when I wrote a blog post on the Montague Sandplains. In Western Mass., I had heard about their presence there, but hadn't stayed late enough to actually hear one. I was determined to do so this year. The Montague S. Sand delta formed by melting glaciers. The Whip-poor-will is listed as a...

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One Jackdaw Birding: 1/1/13 - 2/1/13

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Thursday, January 10, 2013. The other day I was surprised to see a flock of about 20. The Robins we see here in the winter probably probably started their fall in Canada and found the Northeast temperate enough to stay through the winter, whereas those that summer with us have shifted southward. So these are probably the same Robins we see in early spring when the snow is receding, in transient large flocks foraging among the old grasses and leaves in our backyards and fields. Like this first year juveni...

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One Jackdaw Birding: 7/1/13 - 8/1/13

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Saturday, July 6, 2013. Where are the Bobolinks? The Way to know the Bobolink". The Way to know the Bobolink. From every other Bird. Precisely as the Joy of him—. Obliged to be inferred. Too intimate with Joy—. The Bird of Birds is gone—. How nullified the Meadow—. Bobolinks are iconic grassland birds of the northeast and center of the country. The males are easily recognized by their buffy napes, black front and on their backs white shoulder patches and white on their rumps. Below are a series of photos...

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One Jackdaw Birding: Mid-Summer Birds, Beasts, and Bugs

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Sunday, August 11, 2013. Mid-Summer Birds, Beasts, and Bugs. Adult and juvenile Barn Swallows sunning themselves on the metal roof of a barn. One was too lazy to pick up this dragon fly near the barn. July is a real challenge for birding. The birds are quiet, usually staying well hidden in the foliage, feeding their young or fattening themselves up before fall migration. When not distracted they are busy feeding their offspring. And a couple of days later:. Taking a walk with my dog on the gravelly path ...

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One Jackdaw Birding: 12/1/12 - 1/1/13

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Friday, December 7, 2012. Nomads of the North. Here to see this year's forecast. A couple of weeks ago when out with my dog I saw three plump birds with taupe undersides, two white wingbars and rusty caps feeding on a crab apple tree. At first I didn't recognize them but then "rusty" clicked in my head: female Pine Grosbeaks! In Dec 2007 I had photographed a flock in a road-side crab apple tree. The majority were females but I was lucky to also see a male as males often stay behind. Drinking from a puddle.