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Getting Close To The Birds
GETTING VERY CLOSE TO THE BIRDS AND ANIMALS SHIRL’S GARDEN WATCH, a fascinating U.K. blog, features a nestbox with a camera in it, which enables SHIRL to see the daily progress of the nesting birds. She also has a “hedgehog feeding station,” which led her, last fall, to make a “hedgehog house” to shelter a young hedgehog too small to make it through the winter unaided. Some of the most fascinating blog posts I’ve seen. http://blog.shirlsgardenwatch.co.uk/ DO IT YOURSELF PROJECTS FOR BIRD LOVERS: Find here all sorts of feeders, a woodpecker box you can build, how to grow your own birdhouse gourds, and much more. They’re good projects to do with a child. http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/how_to/how_to_index.aspx BIRDING BABYLON The top of the blog shows an American soldier in combat gear, binoculars trained . . . on a bird. JONATHAN has been birding during his military stints in Iraq and has built a relationship with local birders. One entry: “Seeing that this goose had made its way to a area that has been a focus of violence was very symbolic for me. In the midst of violence something magical, a bird that has travelled over 3000 miles from Siberia and the fact we can see where it’s been.” A fascinating blog. http://birdingbabylon.blogspot.com/ WILD PARROTS OF BROOKLYN These wild parrots of New York are amazing, and I’m not the only person to think so. Look off to the left and you’ll see a Brooklyn Parrot calendar and a whole series of miniature Brooklyn Parrot videos. Click below for the full-sized Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LBOBw2G9iU4 And find Brooklyn Parrot blog here: BIRDING IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS Simply gorgeous bird photos taken not far from the shores of Antarctica. The writer also has photos of common Falkland Island vegetation. http://www.surfbirds.com/blog/falklandbirder/ FREE BIRDING RESOURCES WILDBIRDS.COM has tremendous free resources for anyone interested in birds. |
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