Look Who's Back!

Look who's back! I love the return of the birds that fled south for the winter :)

Today, March 7th: The robins are back! One day later than last year:



The common grackles returned yesterday, March 6th - 4 days earlier than last year. Also yesterday, I heard a mourning dove coo - 5 days earlier than last year.

The red winged blackbirds made it back WAY early - one showed up Feb 13th! He called for one day, then laid low for a couple weeks, though still visited my feeders. Then, this past week, many more RWBB's showed up, and they all started singing and displaying - right about on time compared to last year (March 2nd).

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Obama Protects Endangered Species!

HOORAH!!!!!!

President Obama is restoring a requirement that U.S. agencies consult with independent federal experts to determine whether their actions might harm threatened and endangered species.

The presidential memorandum issued yesterday, which marks yet another reversal of former president George W. Bush's environmental legacy, will revive a decades-old practice under the Endangered Species Act that calls for agencies to consult with either the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on whether their projects could affect imperiled species.

Full article @ The Washington Post - Obama Reverses Bush on Species Protection Measure

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Look at this gorgeous little one!

I only see the song sparrows in the winter... this one has been around for a few weeks now!

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Bird Photography Weekly

I've been reading the Bird Photography Weekly posts for quite a few weeks now! Figured I may as well share one of my recent shots. This is of a juvenile Cooper's Hawk during the recent ice storms here in Chicagoland. It was taken in my back yard (from inside the house, where it was much less icy!)

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Merry Christmas!

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New Bird!

I've got a new bird in my yard today!

A black capped chickadee!

I've always wanted a chickadee :)

The cool thing about chickadees is that they always look fluffy and bouncy and happy. And they hide seeds all over the place and can remember thousands of hiding places. I saw this guy hide stuff in the brush in my back yard - so hopefully he'll be back!





I have really got to clean my windows and remove my screens! I'm missing good bird shots!!

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Comment Craziness!

Wow - I've just discovered that people have actually commented on this blog! I have no idea why I'd never been notified of comments over the past year, but this morning I was playing around with the Flock browser, and there's an area where I can configure it to notify me of comments to my blogs. Sure enough, this blog has quite a few comments - comments I have never seen before!

So, my apologies for apparently ignoring everybody! I didn't know you were there, I swear!

This should not be a problem in the future (though I still don't know why Blogger did not notify me, as it does for all of my other Blogger blogs, and the settings here are the same).

Strange!