Blog

10
Sep

Public Forum – Completely revamped!

I hope you will take a few minutes to give the Public Forum another look.  This is your forum to post your sightings and photos, and to ask questions.  I felt the original setup of this section was hard to use – especially if you are like me and do not have much skill operating […]

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09
Sep

Cardinals and Crows

A pair of cardinals are still coming to the platform feeder very early each morning – at dawn, but before the sun breaks the horizon line.  Here at our house, that is between about 6:10-6:40AM Central Time.  The feedercam will be in black and white, but you will still be able to easily see these […]

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05
Sep

The crows have been watching HGTV!

The crows are redecorating.  I could hardly believe my eyes the other day when I looked out our windows at the small birdbath which you can see on the birdfeeder cam.  There was a crow, sitting on the rim, and moving the stones all around with its beak.  It was actually picking the stones up […]

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02
Sep

And a post script!

It is now 6:25AM Central time and I am on my second cup of coffee.  The male and female cardinals have had their breakfast and a juvenile cardinal is now eating.  My guess is that since it came right after the female, this is one of their juveniles.  If you see it on the platform […]

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02
Sep

Who is eating in the dark at 6:02AM?

Good Morning Everyone!  It is 6:02AM Central Time and I am bleary-eyed at my desk having just taken my first sip of coffee.  I just woke up the computer which runs the live-stream cameras.  Even though it is still dark outside, the cameras do run all night and are lit so you can see black […]

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31
Aug

Molting, Migration, Moving

You have probably noticed a decrease in the number of birds using our feeders and birdbaths over the past few weeks.  And some birds have disappeared completely.  Regardless of where you live in the United States or Canada, if you have feeders, it is most probable you will notice a decrease in birds at your […]

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26
Aug

Spotted a Green Heron!

As you know, we live in central Illinois and August is NEVER a month to sit around a fire pit in the late afternoon.  But this August has been so ‘un-normal’.  We have had low humidity, days in the high 70’s, and nights in the high 50’s.  We are beginning to wonder if we have […]

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19
Aug

A Black-capped Chickadee? Are we sure???

Our good friends, Jim and Judy Oettel, live about 30 miles north of us.  Both are very good birders, and it is always a joy to either go with them, or to hear about what they have seen and heard.  They live in an older, well established, tree-filled neighborhood.  The back of their house looks […]

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