As I’ve said, I like to provide food for any of the birds that show up in my yard. I didn’t exactly mean I’d serve little birds to the hawks, but sometimes it happens that way. This Cooper’s Hawk buzzed the feeders this evening and then perched on the fence for a few minutes. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wildlife’
Dinner Guest
Posted in Birds, tagged birds, hawk, Photos, Wildlife on September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Gregarious Grackles
Posted in Birds, tagged birds, Wildlife on September 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Bad birds, bad birds, what ya gonna do… I’ve had a flock of grackles hanging around my feeders for 3 weeks now, sometimes 50 birds at once. Usually the grackles move on after a week or so but these seem determined to stay. Perhaps I need to make the yard less attractive. Four regularly filled [...]
The Elusive Red Headed Woodpecker
Posted in Birds, tagged birds, Wildlife, woodpecker on July 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I finally got a decent picture of one of my favorite birds, the Red Headed Woodpecker. There are several of them at Cantigny Park and a sighting of one is always a treat. Usually the bird is too high in one of the large old trees to get a good shot. Today I spotted one [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Feed Me!
Posted in Birds, Wildlife, Wordless Wednesday, tagged birds, robins, Wildlife on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Robin fledgling only a few hours out of the nest begs mom for food. More Wordless Wednesday.
Bunny Rabbit And I Are No Longer Friends
Posted in Bunny, Wildlife, tagged Bunnies, Nature, Rabbits, Wildlife on June 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
About a month ago I stumbled over a nest of bunnies in my front lawn. Cute little baby bunnies. When I moved aside some of the grass and twigs they looked up inquisitively at me and after a few seconds burrowed back down into the hole. From the expression on the first one’s face he [...]
Endangered Species Day
Posted in Environment, Wildlife, tagged Environment, Wildlife on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Endangered Species Day. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Several years ago the United States Senate designated the third Friday in May as Endangered Species Day to bring awareness to the plight of various species of wildlife and their habitat due to human development. “Only after the last tree [...]
International Migratory Bird Day
Posted in Birds, Wildlife, tagged birds, Wildlife on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) was created in 1993 by visionaries at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. It is celebrated in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Central America through bird festivals and bird walks, education programs, and Bird Day. IMBD officially takes place on the second Saturday in May [...]
Don’t Feed Nesting Geese
Posted in Birds, Wildlife, tagged birds, Geese, Wildlife on April 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been monitoring a goose nest for the past few weeks for NestWatch. The geese, who I call Lucy and Desi, have set up housekeeping in a flower box on the Chicago Riverwalk. She has 5 eggs which should be hatching any day now. At first I thought this would be a bad place to [...]
Chicago River Geese
Posted in Birds, Wildlife, tagged birds, chicago, Wildlife on April 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On nice days I like to go for a lunchtime walk. Today I was walking along the Chicago River and there was a goose sitting in one of the planters. Geese will nest in some pretty strange places so I suppose it could be a female sitting on some eggs. I don’t know enough about [...]
Great Backyard Bird Count
Posted in Birds, Wildlife, tagged birds, Wildlife on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Be a citizen scientist and help the birds. This weekend is the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, a four day event held February 12 through 15, 2010. The GBBC is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society and Canadian partner Bird Studies Canada. Participation is easy and anyone [...]
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