Thursday - left home at midday, and arrived at the Red Kite centre in mid-Wales just before feeding time (for the kites that is). Kites were once common...
Dear Friends of the Orangutan, A polite invitation for you to meet Dr Willie Smits of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, who will be speaking at various...
We participated in the Loudoun County Migratory Bird Day May 8, 2004. Our areas covered Beaverdam (to include Alford and Resevoir Roads), Loudoun County...
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Holly and I went to Huntley Meadows (Alexandria, VA), and started at 08:30 on to about 13:00, and took the loop through the marsh, then the loop around the...
Just to add to Jeremy's post, we also saw a lot of tadpoles swimming around, and further down the boardwalk, we heard both bullfrogs and green frogs calling....
While working in the field yesterday doing stream assessments I heard and saw my first cicadas. I was lucky enough to catch one and take its picture before it...
Awesome shot! We just started getting them over this past week. Here's one I took on Monday of some of them shedding their exoskeletons. They're in force...
I am wondering if we will get these Cicadas here on the Jersey shore. They were hyping them up in the news back in April, and I've yet to see them here. They...
Dear Friends of the Orangutan, Dr Willie Smits, orangutan and rainforest advocate, will be touring the UK next week to give lectures, attend fundraising events...
That's a great point - according to the radio, cicadas don't like trees with sap. And if they were all dug up in construction or development that would do it,...
We are seeing some big moths here lately. Yesterday we had a Polyphemus moth in Chantilly and today I found an Io moth at work in Chantilly. Thought it was...
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Here's the picture of the Io Moth, it's a female based on the red color, males would be yellow. I remembered we had a digital camera and luckily she was still...
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Wow, great shot. Beautiful!! ... Janet ... From: "Glenn Koppel" <koppel@...> To: <wildlife-watchers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:18 PM ...
I thought that the folks on Wildlife Watchers might be interested in this issue - perhaps you can contact your representatives. I have. Mary Alice Koeneke ...
Indeed - I didn't realize that moths could be just as colorful until I spotted this guy on Saturday who was as big as my hand; bigger than any butterfly. A...
Good evening to everybody, APADOG ANTITAURI wishes to collect as many signatures as possible for the Catalan Parliament as well as for the city hall of Olot in...
This weekend at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Assateague Island, Virginia we were walking and birdwatching along the Woodland Trail when we got lucky...
All, I found this link on MSNBC this morning and thought I'd share it. Has anyone seen these hawks in NYC? Holly http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5139409/ By...
This is a neat story that was first brought out in the book, "Redtails in Love". It's a nice story and hearing how the hawk would roost on Mary Tyler Moore's...
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We did our annual spring weekend (albeit a bit later than usual) to Chincoteague this past weekend, 6/5-6/7-04. We had many good birds for the weekend, best...
Beginning Friday, June 18 Several species of raptors will take flight at the National Zoo when the American Eagle Foundation performs a series of live birds of...
We ran the Front Royal BBS survey June 20, 2004. This route starts at the northern entrance to the park and finishes just south of Elk Wallow Wayside. ...
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We ran the Big Meadows BBS survey June 19, 2004. This route starts at the Mary’s Rock Tunnel and finishes at the Hoover Camp just south of Big Meadows. ...
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We've had a great spotted woodpecker visiting the peanuts feeders lately, mostly in the early morning or early evening. I spent a couple of hours out in the...
... From: Mike Wilson WilsonM@... Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:42:50 -0400 To: koppel@... Subject: RE: Peregrine Thanks for the reply. There...
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All, I found this story on the 'net this morning about efforts to put the Black-tailed Prairie Dog on the Endangered Species list, and thought I'd pass it...
Great shots! They sort of resemble our Hairy Woodpecker, but seem quite a bit more colorful. Question, how did North American Grey Squirrels end up overseas? ...
Back in the days when the consequences of introductions weren't a consideration (mid-1800s) a number of North American grey squirrels were brought to Britain...