Chowing Down

Yesterday was Thanksgiving—the only national American holiday where we all have license to stuff ourselves until we explode. I did. Did you?...

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Happy Thanksgiving

Male wild turkey ready to do what male wild turkeys were born to do. In bright sunlight, an adult turkey's feathers show beautiful iride...

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Birds I Am NOT Seeing

Of all the species of birds I am not seeing today on my snow-covered farm in southeastern Ohio, perhaps none has a more interesting hunting...

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GameCam Night Pix

I call this one: "Devil Bunny, Tire Swing, Moon, and Pear Tree." I have been having fun with my two remote nature cameras. One is ...

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Moment of Zen

I recently watched this mist moving over a mountain lake in Tennessee. I was up and outside, shortly after dawn. It was crisply cold and the...

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Unheavy Friday

Like you, I've spent a lot of time in recent years wondering what ever happened to Omar Sharif . Well, you never know what you'll l...

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For A Grackle Eating Dog Food

Black shine yellow eye Great-tailed grackle eats dog food bow-wow-wow-sckrkkttshhhh!

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Alcid Indigestion

The camera's date is wrong, but the cameraman's mad ID skilz are in full force. While digitally flipping through the images from the...

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Hello Winter!

Snow falling on sumac. Hey wasn't that a book? There's a wet snow falling here in SE Ohio, with the temperature hovering just above ...

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Unheavy Friday

If this were one of those motivational business posters, the caption would probably read: Every ascent has its perils. I'd like to invit...

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Young Birders in Texas

I was glad to have my spotting scope along. I kept it set on midget and the kids dug the great bird looks. Photo by Liz Gordon. During the r...

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Una Paloma

Even though it's a non-native invader of our fair land, I have to admit that the Eurasian collared-dove is a good-looking bird. This spe...

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Pauraque

Gray feathers with buffy edges and tips help the pauraque blend in to its habitat. OK Blogsters. Here's the answer to the mystery photo ...

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What Is It?

"You can't tell me there is no mystery"—Bruce Cockburn. I am taking guesses as to what this is in this photograph. It is a sho...

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Deer Prudence

While birding the King Ranch a few days ago, we encountered these curious white-tailed deer bucks. They were wondering where the food was. ...

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Unheavy Friday

Black-bellied whistling-ducks at rest at Estero Llano Grande State Park near Weslaco, Texas. I spent yesterday afternoon with a handful of ...

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New Day

Bird (Life) Goes On

Nice to know, in spite of major things happening in this big old goofy world of ours, that the birds just carry on with their lives. I set u...

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My Favorite Tanager

I've seen a lot of tanager species in my years of bird watching. Both summer and scarlet tanagers nest on our 80-acre farm in southeast ...

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