End of Year Eye Candy

thumbnail 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...

Highlights of 2008: Got Milk?

thumbnail According to my sources, fluent in Portuguese, this sign says "Milk from the foot of the cow." In Brazil, while driving along any ...

Boxing Day Haiku

thumbnail Cold this Boxing Day Wrapping paper smoke billows Almond burr oak sky

Happy & Merry

thumbnail Happy Christmas, Merry Holidays to all and Peace on Earth. love, Bill

New URL for BOTB

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Highlights of 2008: Birthday Lifer!

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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

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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

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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

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Snowflake at the suet dough in February 2008. Some of you might remember my posts last winter about Snowflake the leucistic adult female da...

Dark-eyed Jumpo

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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...

One Spot: 24 Hours of GameCam

thumbnail 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...

Deer Season

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Shotgun season for deer hunting started at dawn yesterday. Here in the boonies of southeastern Ohio that means woodlands dotted with blaze o...

The Chow Line

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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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