You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Today, more portraits of Great Horned Owls. My friend Dan, who seems to know where every nesting pair of Great Horned Owls in the Tucson metropolitan area is located, invited me one evening a couple of weeks […] […]
Photo Album Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea Brown-headed Cowbird (Female) Molothrus ater American Goldfinch (Male) Carduelis tristis Brown-headed Cowbird (Male) Molothrus ater European Starling Sturnus vulgaris Eastern Towhee (Male) Pipilo erythrophtalmus Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla © HJ Ruiz – Avian101 My Photos of Birds # 4 — H.J. Ruiz – Avian101
Magpie and Fox It seems we now have a resident Fox, who has stayed in the fox hotel three nights in a row and likes to take breakfast in the hog cafe. We are treating the fox with medication to try and sort out the early signs of mange around the tail. The magpie keeps […] […]
Yesterday, I posted a video of a male ruby-throated hummingbird using a bush by the window as a shelter from the rain. Here are a few shots of the little beauty. Here’s the video in case you missed it. A few more hummingbird shots — Birds of New England.com
“Roll up, roll up folks. Come and see the amazing spring. One day only, be sure not to miss it. roll up roll up” Perhaps I’m being a bit pessimistic but our little bit of England, whilst being ‘green and pleasant’, has been a bit, er, ‘under the weather’. Others have been ok, over here […] […]
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Thank you for this post. Prairies are crucial to the health of North America’s overall ecology, and are not appreciated at the level with which they deserve! I’m a horticulturist who grows many grasses native to our tall and short grass prairies, and I see first-hand the value they bring to the wildlife of my area.
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I’ve long admired the prairie grasslands of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Black-footed ferrets and burrowing owls are particular favourites, but so too are gophers, bison and the multitude of birds that call prairie grasslands home. It’s heartbreaking to know that we’ve lost a lot of ecological ground to industry and residential development across Canada and the US.
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