Never-Ending Birds [Poetry Review]
The book “Never-Ending Birds”, a book of poems by David Baker, is definitely not a children’s bedtime story. These poems make you think about all the things that are around you. I really enjoyed the poem called “Little Orchard” because of the beautiful imagery and the creative hyperboles. This is a great book for those people who love to be outside and see the wonders of the Earth.
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Reminders of Summer
Found this warbler nest in the snow today!! This snow covered nest reminds me . . . that I make it through the winter knowing the Warblers will return in the spring!!
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Winter at Red House Lake
Winter at Red House Lake, originally uploaded by Mon@rch.
Winter has moved through Allegany State Park with blizzard
conditions!! The Ring-necked Ducks moved on and now we have 9
Mallards, 175 Canada Goose and 100 Ring-billed Gulls who appear to be
holding out the storm!!
Report via my iPhone!!
Ring-necked Ducks hiding from the storm
Ring-necked Ducks
The first winter storm of the season moved through Allegany State Park today. We had all kinds of weather from snow, down poring rain, sunny skies, thunderstorm, small hail and even high winds for most of the day making any bird wishing they were not migrating south. Today we had 13 Ring-necked Ducks on Red House Lake who appeared to be ducking out from this storm.
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New Birding iPhone App [BirdsEye]
BirdsEye on the iPhone
This summer I purchased the iPhone after seeing the numerous applications available for birdwatchers (and I was jealous of Pattys iPhone)! I was holding out on purchasing iBird due to its expensive price and rumors that Cornell was coming out with a new application in August (which never came out until this December)! I currently purchased BirdsEye this week and for sure it is a good application . . . . but!!
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Buffleheads on Red House Lake
Buffleheads
The Buffleheads have been showing up on Red House Lake this week!
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
I am thankful for many things this year and I am especially thankful for your views taking this website over 400,000 views!
Introducing Parker
Parker
This is Parker . . . . . Amanda and Eric’s new Yellow Lab puppy! Parker is the cutest thing ever!!
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Fall in Allegany State Park
From Stone Tower
I wanted to post these fall views of Allegany State Park before the snow starts falling! Hope everyone had a great fall!
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Number 12 on Nature Blog Network
Thanks to everyone who has been visiting the Mon@rch Nature Blog over the past week! All your views have jumped my ranking to number 12 on the Nature Blog Network . . . YES Twelve!!
Thanks everyone and the photo below is what helped everyone stumbleupon me . . . . etc. . . to get all these views to my site!
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Happy Halloween
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Happy Halloween Everyone! It has been a decent owl banding season this year!
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Monarch Movement (love this time of the year)
Monarch Butterfly
Allegany State Park had many Monarch butterflies passing through the area today. I counted a good dozen while sitting in the truck today! Many more were observed following the roads moving in a southern direction!
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Mourning Cloak
Mourning Cloak on my hand!
Sometimes they let me pick them up . . . sometimes they fly away!
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Baby Skunk
Baby Eastern Skunk running away!
This is a few photos of a baby skunk that was wondering around this summer!
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Nature Haikus – Apples
By Young Naturalist C
Apples
Flowering in the spring
In summer, ripe apples come
Red and delicious
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Canada Goose Banding
Rounding Up the Geese on the Lake
I had an opportunity to assist with some banding of Canada Goose this summer. I was amazed at the number of people required in banding these guys. People were first used to help direct them to the pen and then the masses of people would then help in quickly band the birds . . . then they would be released. For sure an experience that I will remember for the rest of my life!
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Meadow Vole
Sniff Sniff
Many times people bring me the strangest things for a number of reasons . . . 1) to help identify . . . 2) they are injured and needs to be rehabilitated or 3) they have no clue what to do with it! Late last spring/early summer someone had brought me this cute Meadow Vole because they found it stuck in the dog food container. I held onto it for a short time (to capture a few pictures and observe) before releasing it in the back yard!! These are just a few of the photos that I captured!
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Flying along the Lake
Double-crested Cormorant
While out on the pontoon boat we saw a few things flying along Chautauqua Lake.
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Babies in the Boxes
House Wrens
While visiting Young Naturalist C . . . she had some babies in her back yard nest boxes! Sorry there is something about babies that make me smile!
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Along Chautauqua Lake
Woodducks
A few summer photos taken from the pontoon boat on Chautauqua Lake.
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New Trail Camera
Deer eating an apple!
I have been playing with my new trail camera that I purchased a few weeks ago! These are only a few pictures that I captured from the weekend!
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