Yesterday, I posted a video. Sandhill Crane. Cleon and I took a drive on rural roads through farmland. Some of these fields have not had changes and so still have low areas where water collects – generally no more than a foot deep and most often, only several inches deep. These low areas are havens […]
Here in central Illinois, spring migration has started. And that means the arrival of the blackbirds. We are fortunate in that most are with us only for a few weeks and then disperse to find nesting territories, mate, and raise their young. But some blackbirds can be persistent and stay right here in our yard. […]
This morning, I posted some videos of Snow Geese. My 2/15 blog was “Snow Geese – look carefully at each flock …….. ” I included a few photos in that blog, but just knew I had more and lo and behold, when looking through some of my thumb drives, there they were. With the exception of […]
I went into our garage this morning and startled a Carolina Wren who was busy poking around all our shelves looking for a nest site! Spring is on its way!!!! If you do get a bird trapped in your garage or shed, just leave the doors and/or windows open for about 30 minutes and most […]
Since the holidays, some of my birding friends here in central Illinois have had more bluebirds than they have ever had – and that includes Cleon and me. I did post photos in the Public Forum our friend Jim sent us of buebirds at his house which is about 30 miles north of us. He […]
It is going to be warmer here in central Illinois for about a week to 10 days. This is a good time for Cleon and me to thoroughly clean each feeder every few days. The birds had just about emptied the safflower feeder – House Finches love these seeds here in our backyard. Cleon and […]
If you have been watching our live-stream camera over the last few weeks you will have noticed that on most days, it is standing-room-only at the feeders. That is because it has been so bitterly cold. When you are watching the live-stream, there is weather information on the top left corner of your screen for […]
Downy and Red-bellied Woodpeckers are the big suet eaters at our feeders. And they relish the suet I make that is in the log feeder my father made for me so many years ago. (The recipe for this suet is under Bird Feeders and Bird Baths in this website’s menu.) We also have a wire […]
Snow Geese are migrating and you might see and hear flocks overhead for at least another week. Out here in the midwest, they land to forage in our huge, harvested agricultural fields and to rest on our lakes. We do not often have them here on our small lake, but we do have them on […]
Avian flu is nationwide and this is the time of year when it is at its most deadly. One way this disease is spread is through wild geese and ducks who can be carriers of the disease and from the end of January through mid April is when they are migrating. It is spread by […]