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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
FEW BIRDS ARE SO DEEPLY EMBEDded in the Scottish psyche as the osprey – and few men's lives have been more connected with the raptor than that of Roy Dennis, whose new book details not only the life of the osprey but also his own association with thebird.It was in 1960, as junior warden at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' (RSPB) famous "Operation Osprey" project...
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The Birdchaser (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
I wrote my master's thesis on sewage ponds and the birds at Hornsby Bend in Austin. I started the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory while I was starting my PhD program. Now that I am in Austin to finish that up, Hornsby was the first place I went to after picking up the rental car. Just a quick spin around the ponds was great to see old friends like Crested Caracara . Also saw a couple...
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The Hawk Owl's Nest (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
A woman came in to the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory gift shop yesterday and purchased replacement yellow flowers for a hummingbird feeder like the one above. I commented how they sometimes get moldy no matter how regularly you clean them. She said, "No, that's not it. I have a Pileated Woodpecker that likes to cling to the feeder and peck the heck out of them!" That's one I hadn't heard...
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10,000 Birds (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
It’s pouring with rain again here in the UK (and I’ve been feeling absolutely exhausted after a bout of ‘instant weight loss the viral way’ which has seen me tied to our bathroom for the last few days), so in the absence of any birding here today I thought I’d post a few photos instead [...]
