SPRING BLOSSOMS! So far this spring we have found two blossoming plants in our yard. The first was this very beautiful CROCUS ON APRIL 5TH, found underneath our southwest facing kitchen...
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Brrrrr! Winter is not my favorite season! season.... - 27 Drgrees Celsius today! too much!! eagerly eaiting for spring!!
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Birdwatching! Up until recently, David and I were the main birdwatchers living in our house! However that is until we adopted our cat that we named Meadow. Meadow is a pretty tortoiseshell cat ...
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T his winter I have spent many hours looking for Snow Buntings and this week I found two or three feeding along a roadside. When they saw me approach in my car they flew up onto the power l...
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Finally, a favorite little winter sparrow, A Tree Sparrow, arrived in Bird Alley this afternoon. there were several of them and now that they have found us, I am hoping that they w...
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We have many Chickadees visiting Bird Alley daily! and I seldom focus upon them for a photo, but today is their day! I am linking this morning to Eileen's Saturday Critters which can be found a...
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Watching the birds is a wonderful daily fascination for us. As the seasons change, so often does the bird species that visit and feed here. It is only during the winter months when we get to vi...
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We seldom see a female Cardinal in Bird Alley, however this last week a female cardinal visited on three days in a row. What a wonderful, beautiful sighting she was!
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These two birds are not feeder buddies and seldom perch this close together. In Bird Alley they both are attracted to our Cardinal food which is full of blackoiled sunflower seeds. The C...
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Earlier this week we had Common Redpolls at our feeders. this was a lovely surprise as we haven't seen Redpolls in Bird Alley that we can recall within the last two years! The first Redpolls ...
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The day after a very wet, windy, rainy Christmas day and the bird feed in the bird feeders must be very soaked but that does not deter a group of chickadees from feeding there. Also present ...
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I am always very delighted to see a Cardinal in Bird Alley. Its colour is so bight and outstanding! Its like seeing it for the first time! As a child I had never seen a cardinal and so whe...
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We have had an adundant crop of American Bittersweet berries this fall. Recently we have seen a wandering flock of Waxwings making sporadic visits to the bittersweet berries. These berries h...
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We had few Common Grackles visit Bird Alley this spring and so I was especially pleased to welcome one at our feeders this November. It only appeared for the one day but on that day I took a...
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This morning and prviously one day this week we were invaded by a small horde of Evening Grosbeaks. The big lure was amall black oiled sunflower seeds! shown below are ten Grosbeaks on the gr...
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I don't know how long they stay around but I found this female wood duck earlier this week in oue local lagoon. Perhaps it is the last glimpse I will get of thes species until il Marc...
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Its that time of year again when the Robins flock to our yard to deed on the abundant berries of our flowering crab apple trees, American Bittersweet berries and the many. many rose hips! ...
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We don't often see warblers in our feeder area , so it was a very pleasant surprise to see this little Yellow Rumped visitor flitting about our trees a few days ago. At first I was confused a...
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I often see a pigeon that looks all white , however there is often a shade of back or darkness somewhere on the bird's body BUT this week I took a picture of a pigeon that appears to be all w...
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On August 17th. we found two Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars! We collected them both and placed them in a plastic cage for our purpose of observation of them throughout their completion stages to ...
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I am posting this morning to eileen's Saturday Critters , which can be found at viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.ca
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I often see a white Pigeon in my area. It is never all totally white , which I sometimes think it is, but when it turns or moves I often see that it has black makings also. I am posting ...
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We saw an unusual coloured frog yesterday morning at the Fredericton Botanic Gardens. "It has rare colouring -- it is missing the yellow pigment in its skin. It is a minty greenish/turquoise...
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i have been watching these three fawns all week, every morning that I could find them. Mama Whitetail must be so busy and so patient. All three trying to feed at the same time must be so demandin...
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