Barred Owl, Dead, Aprox. 7:15 pm March 13, 2011 Barred Owl, Dead, Aprox. 7:15 pm March 13, 2011 The Amazing Talons of the Barred Owl The AmazingThe Amazing Talons of the Barred Owl The Amazing Beak of the Barred Owl Our Facebook page has some “just after it happened” posts relating to this, but in content not much...
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Barn Owl Stands Tall Barn Owl Barn Owl Kestrel Kestrel Eagle Owl Eagle Owl Eagle Owl It stayed overcast for the day, 3/12/10, despite some hope of higher temps and break through sun as we had heard from the always correct weatherman. The even turned to be WAY too crowded, probably from great promotion, and also from the fact...
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Turkey Vulture Hunkered Down Turkey Vulture Notices its Being Watched Turkey Vulture Shrouded in Snow Even the Vultures Tail Wasn't Spared in this Storm Deciding the Photo Session was Over, the Vulture HOP/SHAKES Into the Woods! Sunday March 6 and Monday March 7, 2011 may not be our final word in Upstate NY as far as...
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Mystery 12 Bird Take Off Print Bird Taking off!! Well, Guys and Squirrels, we HAVE our winner!! I have to give the full win to the famous JAMES COLBORN, Naturalist extraordinaire for mentioning the wing print. But I also have to say that by time- with the bird reference, the winner is another great naturalist Kate Edwards,...
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Hybrid Rooster From the NG Ranch, Triple Crest A Rooster Purchased From Tractor Supply- No Idea What Breed Named "Mottled" by My Daughter, It is the Dad of Our Summer's Young. Check out the spongy comb. One of "Mottled's kids, A Beautfully Colored Hen It is officially, and thouroughly frozen up in my...
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‘ The Black Vulture A Black vulture, Coragyps atratus, earns its stay by cleaning up discarded fish parts that wash up along the Pacific coast of the Costa Rica, in this February 2010 shot. Normally a bird with a poor public affairs officer, it isn’t the prettiest bird. But it is one of the stateliest. With...
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Scarlet Macaw Eating a "Beach Almond" A Scarlet Macaw Reaches For Another Nut Seeing a small flock of Scarlet Macaws, Arao macao (2-4 family members) in the wild for the first time is just awe-inspiring. To this day, for me, its hard to imagine that this large relatively ungainly looking bird, can manage itself so...
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Tiger Heron, younger animal Tiger Heron Mom with Young The first time I saw a tiger heron, Tigrisoma mexicanum*, I was literally awe struck. It was huge, and even though our great blue and white phase herons are impressive- this thing was just a shocker. So beautifully striated as a youngster, and so well hidden in the reeds...
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Red-Lored Amazon Red-Lored Parrot EYAKKING! Lunch tasted good this day seared into my memory. A gentleman I had just met was going to breath fire at night. . .and I couldn’t wait to see this (he wanted 2 US dollars and a beer for his troubles). I was eating a great local cerviche (fish picked in acetic acid), my...
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Big Red Big Mottled Well, never late for a chicken story or joke, but the chicken craze is on, and people are keeping hens or two (usually no roosters to keep the noise down), as a move to fresh eggs. The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a descendant of a wild bird called the red jungle fowl. While thought of...
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