All, Well, this morning as I was eating my breakfast, we had quite a showing at the feeder! I first heard part of their call, and thought to myself, "Huh, I...
All, With the warm weather we've been having here in Virginia this week, we've had a lot of really good wildlife sightings. Last night, on the way home from...
Holly, I have noticed lots of flocks of Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles moving north - we have had a number of grackles at our feeders as well. In ...
We noticed this morning, a pair of robins acting rather "frisky". It looked like they may be a pair, one would follow around behind the other one, and then...
Thanks for the link, that does look interesting! Other info. for people in the D.C. area that was sent to the VA-Birds list today: THE BIRDS OF BANSHEE REEKS...
Neat! You can tell male and female robins apart by the color of the head. The males have a very black "hood" to their head - the females are a duller gray...
All, As another spring approaches, it is time for the annual Frogwatch USA! Today, the Washington Post had an article about Frogwatch, so I am including that...
If you are interested in frog and sounds of the night, check out the web site: www.naturesounds.com. This is the site of Lang Elliot who has done many...
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Mar 5, 2004 9:03 pm
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Indeed; we've had Red-winged Blackbirds in the yard, eating alongside Grackles, Doves, Starlings, Sparrows, and a group of Brown-headed Cowbirds! And the...
In line with Holly's note on Frogwatch, the is a good web site with CDs and sounds of frogs and birds too. It is the site of Lang Elliot who has done many...
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Mar 7, 2004 4:23 pm
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I saw this in yesterday's newspaper and had to share: http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,919837,00.html In case the article is no longer there, I've copied...
That's a good story, I'm glad to see some places are interested in helping out wildlife! I guess this would be a good time to remind everyone to watch out for...
All, Yesterday, I visited South Lakes in Reston for lunch, and observed some odd mallard behavior while I was there. There was a male and a female together,...
Holly, You probably did witness one of the courtship behaviors in Mallards. I looked in my Stokes Guides to bird behavior but the specific display you...
Holly, You are right, you are seeing courtship in the mallards. It's always kind of neat to watch the displays of the various animals at this time of year. ...
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National Zoo Receives Accreditation from American Zoo and Aquarium Association The Smithsonian's National Zoo today was granted a full five-year accreditation...
While Holly and I were out today, just after noon, we say a bird feeding on a carcas on the side of Route 28, heading just North of Sterling BLVD. From a...
We stopped by the Dulles Wetlands this afternoon to check on ducks. We weren't disappointed, there were good numbers of ducks including our first year Blue...
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This looks like an interesting site! Glenn Subject: [va-bird] Richmond Peregrine Falcons The Peregrine Falcons nesting on the BB&T building at Ninth and Main ...
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I'm certainly glad to hear that some progress has been made. It's been a long time since we've been to the zoo, and would like to go back. Hopefully the...
We had some great sightings this weekend! We did Busch Gardens on Saturday in Willaimsburg, VA, and saw Canada Geese, Mallards, Double-crested Cormorant, and...
All, I found this news story on the Environmental News Network (www.enn.com) and thought I'd pass it along. It seems the Governor of Alaska thinks he's above...
Jeremy - Gorgeous photos - particularly of the Osprey! The osprey by the way is so well depicted in your photo that you can see the dark "necklace" around the...
No kidding; I didn't know you could tell the gender of an Osprey. That's pretty cool. We must have seen no fewer than 50 down there this weekend; several on...
That's awesome; I didn't know they were entirely funded through donations. It's really amazing what they're able to do with what they have. I'll certainly...
Holly, Frank Murkowski has long been a friend of oil exploration and drilling and an opponent of anything environmentally sound for a long time. Apparently he...
Jeremy, At this time of year - wouldn't be a family of loons - they don't have their young until they get into the northern lakes of northern NY, New England...
True; guess that's like most animals. But I was talking about just a whole bunch of them (or a mess of them, large group of them, however; family as a generic...
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