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Birding

The Once and Future Oriole

July 4, 2014 by Carrie 1 Comment

I can’t possibly remember when the Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles were lumped into Northern Oriole. This happened in a good five years before I...

Seeds of the Eastern cottonwood, of which plains cottonwood is a subspecies

Plants

A Snowflake’s Chance

June 20, 2014 by Carrie No Comments

As I bird, walk the dog or run errands, puffs of white float down on the breeze. Up on Higgins near the book store...

Three osprey chicks from Dunrovin Ranch, Montana

Birds

An Osprey is an Osprey is an Osprey

June 6, 2014 by Carrie No Comments

Today we named the three Osprey chicks that hatched out at Dunrovin ranch. It was a complex process, involving a selfie contest, voting by...

Birds

New Faces at the Olde Homestead

May 23, 2014 by Carrie 1 Comment

When they say that you can’t go home again, the proverbial They are usually talking about the fact that people change. Maybe you’ve changed;...

Cover - Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds

Reviews

The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds

May 9, 2014 by Carrie 1 Comment

I’ve been a fan of The Mincing Mockingbird since the hoary days of Livejournal. Matt Adrian’s characteristic style features acrylics of birds against stark...

Birds

We Can’t All Be Whiskey Jacks – Meditations on a Bad Bird Name

April 25, 2014 by Carrie 10 Comments

It’s no secret that I am a big fan of our more elaborate and storied bird names. Besides timberdoodles and whiskey jacks, I also...

Birding

Freezeout After Hours

April 11, 2014 by Carrie No Comments

As I mentioned before, Freezeout means Snow Geese, and lots of them. But like any aspect of migration, the lots-of-Snow-Geese phenomenon is ephemeral and...

Birds

An Osprey Moment of Truth

April 4, 2014 by Carrie No Comments

The Ospreys have returned to Dunrovin. It’s a gamble every year, of course. When people are invested in identifiable individual birds, there’s always the...

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