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End of Year Eye Candy
11:22 AM
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best of 2008,
bird photography,
favorite birds
Here are a few of my favorite bird pix from the first half of 2008. Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, prosperous, peaceful new year. D...
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best of 2008,
bird photography,
favorite birds
Highlights of 2008: Got Milk?
6:30 AM
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birding in Brazil,
cow milk,
Highlights of 2008
According to my sources, fluent in Portuguese, this sign says "Milk from the foot of the cow." In Brazil, while driving along any ...
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birding in Brazil,
cow milk,
Highlights of 2008
Boxing Day Haiku
9:44 AM
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Labels:
haiku,
Nature poetry
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haiku,
Nature poetry
Happy & Merry
10:39 AM
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New URL for BOTB
7:31 AM
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Dear All: Last April, due to a problem with the FTP servers at Blogger, I was forced to find a new home for Bill of the Birds. I was unable ...
The Things You Find While Birding
3:47 PM
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birding in Brazil,
Things You Find While Birding
My birding pal Terry Moore and I found these paper towels in a roadside store in Brazil last summer. We couldn't resist taking a photo a...
Death Rocket
6:30 AM
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backyard birds,
bird feeding,
hawks at bird feeders,
northern cardinal,
sharp-shinned hawk
Northern cardinal male. We have one less of these on the farm this morning. First thing this morning, while I was talking on the telephone w...
Caption Contest
7:38 AM
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Bird Watcher's Digest,
birding in Texas,
caption contest
I am inviting all Bill of the Birds readers to write a funny caption for this photograph. I took this image in November on a birding field ...
Today at the Feeder
7:51 AM
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backyard birds,
bird feeding,
peanuts,
today at the feeder,
woodpeckers
An adult female yellow-bellied sapsucker showed up at the peanut feeder today. Zick had noticed that the peanut consumption was way up and t...
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backyard birds,
bird feeding,
peanuts,
today at the feeder,
woodpeckers
Highlights of 2008: Birthday Lifer!
11:35 AM
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Labels:
bat falcon,
birding in Guatemala,
Jeff Bouton,
Leica Birding Blog,
life birds
Bat falcon, Flores, Guatemala. March 3, 2008. Am I jinxing myself by looking back at some of the year's most enjoyable birding moments b...
Opposable Chums: A New Birding Film
1:02 PM
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Labels:
birding films,
Opposable Chums,
World Series of Birding
Perhaps this is a sign that birding or bird watching has finally come of age. We're starting to see films being made about our hobby. An...
Highlights of 2008
7:04 AM
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Labels:
birding festivals,
birding in North Dakota,
Highlights of 2008,
Potholes and Prairie Birding Festival
Photo by Julie Zickefoose. As the end of another year draws nigh, I am beset and bemused by thoughts of the year's highlights. One of th...
No Snowflake The Junco
7:06 AM
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Labels:
bird feeding,
dark-eyed junco,
leucistic birds,
marker birds,
Snowflake
Snowflake at the suet dough in February 2008. Some of you might remember my posts last winter about Snowflake the leucistic adult female da...
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bird feeding,
dark-eyed junco,
leucistic birds,
marker birds,
Snowflake
Dark-eyed Jumpo
12:20 PM
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dark-eyed junco,
spark bird stories
In March of 1964, I was a two-year old kid sitting in a highchair at the window of my grandma Thompson's kitchen. It was a snowy morning...
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dark-eyed junco,
spark bird stories
One Spot: 24 Hours of GameCam
9:15 AM
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Labels:
game camera,
nature at night
I put the Moultrie GameCam out by the inedible pear tree last Saturday night, November 29, 2008. In front of the camera I scattered inedible...
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game camera,
nature at night
Deer Season
9:50 AM
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Labels:
deer hunting,
white-tailed deer
Shotgun season for deer hunting started at dawn yesterday. Here in the boonies of southeastern Ohio that means woodlands dotted with blaze o...
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deer hunting,
white-tailed deer
The Chow Line
1:02 PM
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Labels:
bird feeding,
suet dough,
Wingscapes BirdCam
Blue jay, dark-eyed junco, northern cardinal on a snowy afternoon. In winter, when we feed suet dough to our backyard birds, we often see a ...
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bird feeding,
suet dough,
Wingscapes BirdCam
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