Category: local wildlife
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Spring has Sprung!!
When I see the chipmunks eating birdseeds at the base of the birdfeeder I know that their hibernation is over and spring has sprung.
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Bird of the week LII
Little Blue Heron. Both male and female build nest on a platform and have one brood per year. Both male and female incubate the eggs. And both male and female feed the young for 42-29 days These herons eat fish and aquatic insects. The information above is from Stan Tekiela’s book Florida Field Guide.
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Monday Portrait+Bird of the Week XXXIII
This is a dark eyed Junko (male) puffed up to stay warm on a cold day. I always leave the flower heads of the echiinacea and rudebeckia (black eyed Susan) to die back to seed heads. Here you can see a junko is pecking at the seed head of a rudebeckia. This is also my…
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Saturday Squirrels
This is the best tme of year to be a squirrel. the farmer’s field to the south of us has corn that it now almost ripe. The squirrels climb up the stalks of corn and pull off a corn cob. Then they run onto our lawn and get the husks off. Some of the corn…