Category Archives: Birding
Great Egret
Last week Great Blues and now great whites, colonial nesters in the same locality. The Great Egret is a summer resident that catches the eye in flight, its extraordinary long neck folded behind a dagger beak and legs stream behind.
Great Blue Heron
Normally solitary, I see Great Blues poised on the banks of saltmarsh, staring into the creek at a respectful distance from the next neighbor. Occasionally one lands by our pool, as statuesque as the artificial kind sold as pool decoration. … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Blue Heron, Rookery, Rooks
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Downy Woodpecker
A Downy Woodpecker in SE Virginia creates a food bank Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Inge Curtis birds, Nature
Tagged Virginia, Woodpeckers
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A Nose for Good or Evil
Imagine my shock. I poured a glass of fine wine for a French neighbor in New York and, before showing him the bottle, he identified it by a sniff – the region, vineyard, and almost got the vintage. My nose … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Vulture, scavenger, Turkey Vulture, White-tailed deer
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There’ll Be Bluebirds Over
The American composer of “There’ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover” either had the excuse of poetic license or didn’t know that bluebirds are absent from the British Isles. But the song became one of one of Dame … Continue reading
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Tagged Bird eggs, Bluebird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, coronavirus, nestbox, Vera Lynn, Virginia Bluebird Society
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 