Tag: birds
group name: naturelovers
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July 11, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
Come sit with me for a bit in my garden. I'm getting lonely spending my free time in the kitchen processing all my fruits that are coming ripe now.
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April 27, 2007 11:52 PM EDT --
[Note: This is an entry in my Blogger blog from a year ago, but I thought it bore repeating here. I added these photos for this article, as the original blog didn't have pics. The picture of the juvenile . . . more
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April 24, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
Living in Newport, RI, hikes on my days off can be interesting. It's typical rocky, hilly New England here, but we're also on the Atlantic Ocean and so have beaches, tidal inlets, salt marshes, . . . more
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July 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
The Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge was developed on the site of an old Navy shooting range and communications center. When I first wandered out there in the '70s it was still a wasteland of . . . more
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May 27, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
Momma, where are you?
Are you over there?
Did you forget me?
Here I am, here I am!
What did you bring me?
Yummy!
A little more, you are a wonderful . . . more
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December 21, 2007 05:40 PM EST --
We got some minor snow in the past week, but I haven't had a chance to go photograph it in my favorite spots because I was working the whole time. I was off today and I figured I'd better get . . . more
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May 05, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
I went down to Big Pond today to see if I could find that Snapper again, but still no luck. But I got a lot of other interesting shots there, as well as on the Cliff Walk a little later.
While walking . . . more
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October 03, 2006 06:27 PM EDT --
This Cardinal decided to visit our backyard yesterday. I rarely see them in the yard and rushed to get the camera, then quietly as possible sneaking out to capture him to share. I was lucky enough to get . . . more
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January 08, 2008 07:15 PM EST --
I was all set to do laundry today until I heard the weather forecast - mostly sunny and warm, with the high temps approaching 60. so naturally I heard the call of the wild and decided the laundry could . . . more
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January 18, 2008 11:52 AM EST --
I wasn't aware that I was going to be photographed sir and I do apologize.
If I had known, I would of buffed my peak, trimmed my claws and fluffed the feathers around my neck. As it was, I looked . . . more
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March 09, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
Can you hear them? They are on the dead trees, telephone poles and, well, our houses with wooden siding. Like little jack-hammers. What's a homeowner to do?
First, we need to understand that there . . . more
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November 11, 2007 05:38 PM EST --
I had today off; a Sunday off for me is a rarity. It was our first seriously chilly day - when I first set out around 8:30 it was about 28 degrees, and in the course of the day it never got out of the . . . more
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February 28, 2008 06:39 PM EST --
I had another outing with the Raynox telephoto lens today. You know what? I think I'm getting the hang of this thing! Even though it was a bright, sunny day, I still got great, detailed shots with . . . more
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May 21, 2008 01:07 PM EDT --
Today is the fourth day a blue/brown bird has been flying into my patio door. I thought maybe it was because the vertical blinds were open so I closed them, - well, 'no can do'.....he . . . more
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March 13, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
I came out of the tunnel under the Chinese Tea House and up the hill a little way and what did I see in the water but a group of Red-Fronted Mergansers. After watching them for a little while I saw the . . . more
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May 24, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
I figured today would be a good day to head out to the Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge again - sunny, warm, and a light breeze. Well, it was definitely a good day out there. Lots of birds around, . . . more
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October 26, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
I got up this morning to twenty dregees and heavy frost. As I feed my pets I looked out and noticed the bird feeders next to the window was empty. So I figured I put on a coat and shoes and fill . . . more
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September 25, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
Don’t get me wrong - I really love cats. But compared to dogs, they are almost untrainable. No matter how civilized a home they may have, or how well they are fed and cared for, the instincts they . . . more
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April 27, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Newport's Cliff Walk is a National Recreational Trail in a National Historic Zone. Former Senator Claiborne Pell, who lives here, lobbied for years to get official designation for the trail, and his . . . more
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July 04, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
The Norman Bird Sanctuary is in Middletown, RI, the next town over/up from us in Newport. The Sanctuary lies behind Second Beach, and up on the Ridge Trails in the Sanctuary you get some really gorgeous . . . more
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