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It may not be often that any of us think about sharing a close personal and intimate contact with a tree. Yet every minute of every day all oxygen-breathing creatures on planet Earth, including us humans, breathe deep into our lungs the oxygen that...
It may still be rather chilly and windy most days so that it may not feel so much like spring, but birds are returning. We were rather surprised to see the distinctive wing shape of an osprey already a week ago floating in the wind over the south...
Brother Andrew texted us the other day with a question about identifying an odd-looking blackbird. Could it be a starling or a red-winged blackbird, he asked? He went on to ponder as to whether a young red-winged blackbird would look more like a...
Birders often talk about their favorite birding “patches.” By that they mean the local places that they regularly frequent. Often these are not the well-known birding hotspots but some small park, preserve, or other location that is close enough and...
During these still-cold days of March, we celebrate any of the earliest returning birds of spring—red-winged blackbirds, American woodcock, turkey vultures, perhaps robins in your neighborhood (though there are some around various parts of the state...