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Laura's Birding Blog

25.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Final Blogger Post: Moving to Substack!

When I started "Laura’s Birding Blog" in 2007, Blogger (owned by Google) took care of sending emails to subscribers. They discontinued that ...

Laura's Birding Blog

20.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Flaco the Eagle Owl: To Count or Not to Count?

Flaco, the escaped Eurasian Eagle-Owl in Central Park, NY. Photo by Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons I recently received...

Laura's Birding Blog

14.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Eurasian Tree Sparrow

On Saturday morning, in advance of a big snowstorm, my friend Erik Bruhnke and I drove to Superior, Wisconsin, to see a small group of Euras...

Laura's Birding Blog

12.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Enhance Your Nest Box with Bark!

At this very moment, people in my neck of the woods are digging out from a foot of new snow, with even more predicted later this week. Never...

Laura's Birding Blog

10.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: TEST blog post

This blog post is just to test a new service for people who receive the blog via email. Sorry if you're seeing this, but here are a couple o...

Laura's Birding Blog

09.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Spring Update

There may be a couple of feet of snow on the ground and more in the forecast, but ornithological spring has sprung. As of March 1, the birds...

Laura's Birding Blog

09.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Chickadee Day and Life Lists

Every year I celebrate March 2 as “Chickadee Day," the anniversary of my seeing my first chickadee in 1975. This year, several people expres...

Laura's Birding Blog

08.03.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: New Email Test Post--NOT a real blog post

If you notice this post before I delete it, sorry! My daughter is helping me get a new email service for the blog, and we have to test it ...

Laura's Birding Blog

23.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Together and Apart

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s The Tuft of Flowers , especially the lines: ‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart./ ‘Wh...

Laura's Birding Blog

17.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Earning Trust in the Age of Climate Change

Ruffed Grouse often bury themselves in deep snow for the night. Yeah, it's cold, but on frigid nights the temperature under thick snow is hi...

Laura's Birding Blog

15.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Birding Basics: Binoculars

Binoculars are essential equipment for birding, but a lot of people get frustrated trying to get birds in their binocular view before they...

Laura's Birding Blog

14.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Superb Owl Sunday 2023

Russ and I don’t get to go birding together very often, but we do make a point of getting out one particular Sunday in February whenever we ...

Laura's Birding Blog

10.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: A Few Conifer Specialists

The relationships between birds and plants are wonderfully complicated. Just about every bird I’ve ever seen in my yard has spent at least a...

Laura's Birding Blog

08.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: 100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Conifers

When I started putting together my book, 100 Plants to Feed the Birds , the title was written in stone—Storey Publishing intended it to be t...

Laura's Birding Blog

07.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: My Upcoming Events

This photo is from 2007, when Archimedes and I were in Larry Meiller's studio. This time I'll be remote. I don't usually promote my own stu...

Laura's Birding Blog

01.02.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Slow Birding

In 2016, a Vermont naturalist named Bridget Butler created a website and blog , calling herself the “Bird Diva.” She was at the point in he...

Laura's Birding Blog

31.01.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Dawn Comes to Peabody Street

At this very moment, in the predawn twilight at 7:10 am on January 30, 2023, exactly 25 minutes before sunrise, the temperature is 13 below ...

Laura's Birding Blog

27.01.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Windows

One day in the early 1980s when I was out in the backyard with my preschool children, our young golden retriever Bunter brought me a dead Ev...

Laura's Birding Blog

26.01.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Cats

In the coming weeks, I’m going to produce several “For the Birds” programs and blog posts about improving backyard habitat. But before anyon...

Laura's Birding Blog

22.01.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: Mourning Dove!

This week I heard from Kelli Alseth of Proctor, not too far from Duluth. She's delighted to be hosting a Mourning Dove at her feeding statio...

Laura's Birding Blog

20.01.2023

Laura's Birding Blog: A Million Ways to Bird

I got my first field guide and pair of binoculars on Christmas 1974 and was thrilled by the very idea of becoming a birdwatcher. The only bi...

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Laura's Birding Blog - Nature & Animals

Laura's Birding Blog: Final Blogger Post: Moving to Substack!

Laura's Birding Blog: Flaco the Eagle Owl: To Count or Not to Count?

Laura's Birding Blog: Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Laura's Birding Blog: Enhance Your Nest Box with Bark!

Laura's Birding Blog: TEST blog post

Laura's Birding Blog: Spring Update

Laura's Birding Blog: Chickadee Day and Life Lists

Laura's Birding Blog: New Email Test Post--NOT a real blog post

Laura's Birding Blog: Together and Apart

Laura's Birding Blog: Earning Trust in the Age of Climate Change

Laura's Birding Blog: Birding Basics: Binoculars

Laura's Birding Blog: Superb Owl Sunday 2023

Laura's Birding Blog: A Few Conifer Specialists

Laura's Birding Blog: 100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Conifers

Laura's Birding Blog: My Upcoming Events

Laura's Birding Blog: Slow Birding

Laura's Birding Blog: Dawn Comes to Peabody Street

Laura's Birding Blog: What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Windows

Laura's Birding Blog: What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Cats

Laura's Birding Blog: Mourning Dove!

Laura's Birding Blog: A Million Ways to Bird

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