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Author Archives: Dian Miller
When an Owl Just Drops In
It is pretty easy to miss some good birding days when you are doing things like eating too much, drinking and navigating the Holiday season. I only got outside birding once in December. That is deplorable. So this made me … Continue reading
Posted in Backyard Birds
Tagged ferguson state college, Fireplace, Ken & Rosalie Hoy, screech owl
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Birders On Film
Are you Excited? I love independent films and this one is about birders. The Bird Movie – (click here) Still in production. How can you help? Here is how to participate: The Birder The kickstart funding has reached the halfway … Continue reading
Pine Siskin Outbreaks Everywhere
October 2012 is bringing reports of our favorite little opportunists – the Pine Siskins to our area. Photographer friends from PA, MD, New York and some new-found friends from NJ (wink wink) are reporting lots of feeder activity. A regular Facebook … Continue reading
Birds and Coffee – Two of my favorite things
It is not often I repost another blog post word for word, but after reading this, I wanted to spread the word by word , if you will. Gus, took the time to break down the real meaning behind these … Continue reading
Window Crash Survivor
This is not a sparrow When you are the birder in your circle of friends, all the questions come to you. Questions about found baby birds mostly. This time I got a call, ” yeah …we heard the bird hit … Continue reading
Posted in wild birds
Tagged birds hit windows, cornell lab of ornithology, window strikes, yellow-billed cuckoo
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She was called “hysterical”
She would be so pleased to know that Peregrine Falcons have been nesting on a tall building in Harrisburg Pa, that was named in her honor. However, I think she would be deeply disturbed over the environmental fracturing of Pennsylvania, … Continue reading
Favorite Bird Sighting ~ 2012
This year my favorite bird sighting of 2012 goes to my quest to find a Yellow-Breasted Chat near Harrisburg Pa. where I live. My first chat sighting was years ago in Cape May NJ. I have not seen on here … Continue reading
What we learn from Birds
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ~ Audre Lorde
Late August ~ A Single Eastern Wood Pee Wee
And so it comes every year, but I still kind of dread it. That single time where you go out into your regular, favorite birding spot and you can hear…silence or silence with crickets, and no songs from the Thrushes, … Continue reading
Posted in migration
Tagged August migration, blue jays, eastern wood pee wee, migration, silent woods
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Bird Safe Glass
A Yellow-Breasted Chat recommended this: http://www.npr.org/2012/08/08/157657499/a-clear-and-present-danger-how-glass-kills-birds Found myself in a rental car without a cord for my iPod and no CD’s this week. I got chills thinking I would be forced to listen to AM/FM radio with all the blaring … Continue reading
Posted in migration, wild birds
Tagged bird safe glass, bird safe skyscrapers, Guy Maxwell
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