Bird – Towhee – Chewink – Ground Robin – Joree
Bird Identification – Towhee – Chewink – Ground Robin – Joree From their hunting-ground in the blackberry tangle and bushes that border a neighbouring wood, a family of chewinks sally forth boldly to my piazza floor to pick up seed from the canary’s cage, hemp, cracked corn, sunflower seed, split pease, and wheat scattered about […]
Bird – Crested Flycatcher
Bird Identification – Crested Flycatcher Far more tyrannical than the kingbird is this “wild Irishman,” as John Burroughs calls the large flycatcher with the tousled head and harsh, uncanny voice, who prowls around the woods and orchards startling most feathered friends and foes with a loud, piercing exclamation that sounds like What! Unlike good children, […]
Bird – Mourning Dove – Carolina Dove
Bird Identification – Mourning Dove – Carolina Dove Do not waste any sympathy on this incessant love-maker that slowly sings coo-o-o, ah-coo-o-o-ooo-o-o-ooo-o-o, in a sweetly sad voice. Really he is no more melancholy than the plaintive pewee but, on the contrary, is so happy in his love that his devotion has passed into a proverb. […]
Bird – Short-eared Owl – Marsh Owl – Meadow Owl
Bird Identification – Short-eared Owl – Marsh Owl – Meadow Owl This owl, and its long-eared cousin, wear the tufts of feathers in their ears that resemble harmless horns. Unlike its relatives, the short-eared owl does some hunting by daylight, especially in cloudy weather, and like the marsh hawk it prefers to live in grassy, […]
Bird – The Purple And The Bronzed Grackles – Crow Blackbirds
Bird Identification – The Purple And The Bronzed Grackles – Crow Blackbirds You probably know either one of our two crow blackbirds, similar in size and habits, one with purplish, iridescent plumage, the commonest grackle east of the Alleghenies and south of Massachusetts, and the bronzed grackle, with brassy tints in his black plumage, who […]
Barn Owl.
Owls are pale, long-winged, long-legged owls, 33–39 cm in length with an 80–95 cm wingspan. They have an effortless wavering flight as they quarter pastures or similar hunting grounds. They hunt Rats, Mice, mainly all Rodents, Snakes and other birds. Did You Know? ——————- they regurgitate fur and bones has the owls stomachs acids cannot […]
Bird – Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Bird Identification – Ruby-throated Hummingbird What child does not know the hummingbird, the jewelled midget that flashes through the garden, poises before a flower as if suspended in the air by magic, thrusts a needle-like bill into one cup of nectar after another, then whirs off out of sight in a trice? It is the […]
Bird – Least Flycatcher – Chebec
Bird Identification – Least Flycatcher – Chebec It is not until he calls out his name, Chebec! Chebec! in clear and business-like tones from some tree-top that you could identify this fluffy flycatcher, scarcely more than five inches long, whose dusky coat and light vest offer no helpful markings. Not a single gay feather relieves […]
Bird – Junco – Slate-coloured Snow-bird
Bird Identification – Junco – Slate-coloured Snow-bird When the skies are leaden and the first flurries of snow warn us that winter is near, flocks of juncos, that reflect the leaden skies on their backs, and the grayish-white snow on their breasts, come from the North to spend the winter. A few enter New England […]
Bird – Wood Pewee
Bird Identification – Wood Pewee When you have been wandering through the summer woods did you ever, like Trowbridge, sit down “Beside the brook, irresolute, And watch a little bird in suit Of sombre olive, soft and brown, Perched in the maple branches, mute? With greenish gold its vest was fringed, Its tiny cap was […]