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Bird brained stories!: August 2005
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Thursday, August 25, 2005. Yesterday morning, after arising at the surreal hour of 4am, I was privileged to see a bird that at one point numbered 15 in the world. The experience is one about which I've dreamed, to the point it made my list of 43 things to do. Yesterday, I got to watch the flight training of juvenile Whooping Cranes. I have been jealous of Ural ever since, but after yesterday, my green-eyed monster has been sufficiently fed. We were taken through an oak savannah restoration area that was ...
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Bird brained stories!: May 2005
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Monday, May 30, 2005. Salute to the West Salem Class of 2005! Posted by Gwyn Calvetti at 8:03 PM. A new type of graduation display? Every spring, as I work in my gardens I'll look up high in the trees when I hear a familiar song. I search the tops of the tallest branches for that flash, and it's there. This lasts about four days, then it's back to the usual suspects in my corner lot. Posted by Gwyn Calvetti at 7:51 PM. Sunday, May 22, 2005. A new family in town? If indeed they are nesting in my yard, my ...
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Bird brained stories!: October 2005
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Thursday, October 27, 2005. The weather has turned and the feeders are fast becoming THE place to be, at least for our year-round birds. Black-capped chickadees, house finches, goldfinches, downy woodpecker, cardinal, blue jays, juncos and my personal favorite- -the White Breasted Nuthatch. Whatever it is, I hope they will grace my birdfeeder tables throughout this winter to come. Posted by Gwyn Calvetti at 10:38 AM. Sunday, October 23, 2005. Along with the juncos, the Black-Capped Chickadees seem to be ...
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Bird brained stories!: June 2005
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Saturday, June 25, 2005. Of broken wings and strong roots. There is a saying, give your children roots and give them wings. Certainly, the nesting birds I see now are trying to do just that; grounding their fledglings in the protective instincts needed for survival and the family values that separate a Grackle from a Robin. They're free at the moment, but without the loving care needed to rehabiliate and fix that wing, it's only a matter of time before the cat strikes again and is successful. American Re...
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Bird brained stories!: July 2005
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Saturday, July 30, 2005. So, I was actually out birding. How wrong I was! When I first started down the trail, it seemed like all sign of avian life had gone. No ducks! No egrets. Not even a lousy Red-Winged Blackbird! I got up early? Further on, a brood of new-from-the-box Wood Ducks sat on a deadfall, with Mama Duck roosting on one end. Watching- and shooting- -they eventually grew impatient, as children will, and one, then the others, darted into the water in defiance of Mama. It would seem th...Poste...
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Bird brained stories!: September 2005
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Sunday, September 25, 2005. Time is my enemy, or why I haven't blogged here lately. Back to work. Back to soccer. BIG storytelling commitments, detailed on my other blog. The start of a new People to People travel season. Crummy, crummy weather when none of these others are demanding my attention. I have not been out birding in so long, it hurts. I've watched as the goldfinches in my yard lose their bright yellow feathers, gorging themselves on the Echinacea. Posted by Gwyn Calvetti at 5:47 PM. I don't w...
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Bird brained stories!: April 2005
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Saturday, April 30, 2005. Posted by Gwyn Calvetti at 6:12 PM. Life lists, singing birds and photography. Still, hunting birds with one's camera lens requires a careful study of bird behavior and at a more basic level, bird identification. Identification helps, because knowing the bird gives a better understanding of what behaviors might be anticipated, and hopefully captured, on film or in pixels. Realizing this helped to nudge my basic love of birds to that next level. Whatever shall I do? Rising early-...
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Bird brained stories!: March 2005
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Friday, March 18, 2005. Great Grey Owl ponders life and his next meal. Posted by Gwyn Calvetti at 9:49 PM. Invasion destination; northern Minnesota. Fat chance. Ravens are smart. They weren't coming anywhere near this crowd! We proceeded on into the dusk, stopping near a roadhouse that had more snowmobiles than trucks in its roadside lot, spotting right there on the power line another Great Grey, surveying the hunting grounds before him. Just north of Tamarack, my aunt said, "Look! Although I didn't get ...