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Friday Feathers

Friday Feathers: A Belted Kingfisher with plenty to say!

October 15, 2011

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Friday Feathers – My Home-Office Co-Worker

July 23, 2011

or is he my boss?

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Friday Feathers – Audio: Crows attack what ???

June 17, 2011

Something different this week. The following three minute recording was made outside our front door. In the trees the crows were going insane. This was not the normal shouting we hear, something was clearly upsetting them. The recording starts almost ten minutes after the commotion began. If you listen carefully you can hear the sound [...]

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Friday Feathers – Video: A Red-winged Blackbird Display

June 10, 2011

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Friday Feathers – The Parrots of San Francisco

May 6, 2011

The Parrots of San Francisco!! Starring cherry-headed conure … Guest Starring blue-crowned conure …Tonights Episode … I had no idea! Had I known there were wild parrots living in San Francisco I would have made more of an effort to seek them out during a recent visit to the city. As it was they found [...]

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Friday Feathers: missing the seed eaters

November 5, 2010

Some people disagree that feeding birds is a good idea. As temperatures drop and natural food supplies dwindle, I feel it’s important to feed the birds – I’d feed them all year round if I could. We only had our seed feeder (back) up for one month since moving here. Almost two weeks have gone [...]

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Friday Feathers: where did our food go?

October 29, 2010

good question. bad week – landlord ordered us to take seed feeder down. won’t go into detail here but it really sucks. still have hummingbird feeder up and are getting plenty of visits, but really miss all the squeaks and twitterings and punch-ups of the seed eaters. RightAntler remains very angry …

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Friday Feathers: lbj’s rule

October 23, 2010

Not a particularly noteworthy week this week, compared to last. Last weekend we heard and saw lots of Snow geese passing overhead; I heard a Spotted owl calling to it’s mate – and was really pleased to see a Northern flicker on this feeder set-up for the first time. The feeder is still mainly dominated [...]

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Friday Feathers: what crows do when they think nobody is watching

October 16, 2010

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Friday Feathers: are the house finches about to migrate?

October 1, 2010

The house finches were even more boisterous than usual yesterday afternoon! Methinks they were having a heated discussion about their plans to depart for winter – and were furiously stocking up on food for their trip south. So far today, there’s hardly a peep out of them and there’s far less mess than usual under [...]

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