The Wonderful Spring Season Seems to Be Starting
Wren Refrain After a couple weeks of unusually cold weather, spring seems to be getting started in central Florida. Some...
Can a Beautiful Carolina Chickadee be Thoughtful?
Chickadee Musings Most of the time, Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) are little bundles of energy, flitting in and out of...
Colorful Yellow Rumped Warblers Can Be Peaceful Little Birds
Peacefully Perched One of the things that watching birds will teach you is that various species can have vastly different...
Beautiful Red Bellied Woodpeckers Love to Eat Insects
Over There Today was quite the day for red bellied woodpeckers (Melanerpes carolinus). The morning started out with one up...
Interesting Blue Jays Can Be Great Singers
Blue Blues Singer The woods around here commonly have eastern blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) flying around in the winter and...
Beautiful Pine Warblers are Alert and Active
Consideration One of our truly most beautiful warblers is the pine warbler (Setophaga pinus). They are resident birds that live...
Eastern Phoebes Get a Little Hungry in the Cold
Phoebe Stay The last few days have been colder than usual for this time of the year, and they have...
Beautiful Grey Carbirds Tend to Be Shy
Reserved I live in Florida for one main reason. I don’t much care for cold weather. That said, yesterday was...
Cooper’s Hawks Love to Perch in the Tree Tops
High in a Tree The highlight of my trip out to Cedar Key over the weekend was getting to see...
A Little Blue Heron on the Water is a Beautiful Sight
Backwater Blues When you head out to the water on a birding trip in the southern United States there is...
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