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Category Archives: Nature and wildlife
Avian Friday: How to Attract Birds
Valarie says: Our Northeast Seattle Bird Guy, Joe Sweeney, tells how putting peanut butter on your camera is a sure-fire way to attract birds!
Avian Friday: Watchable Wildlife
It’s Spring, and the Great Blue Herons are in their communal nesting sites called rookeries, large nests often built out over waterways. Through the Watchable Wildlife resources, you can observe birds in real time on the WildWatchCams. HeronWatch is just … Continue reading
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Tagged Washington State Dept of Wildlife, WildWatchCams
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The Great Backyard Bird Count 2013
The Great Backyard Bird Count has begun! From Friday, February 15 through Monday, February 18, anyone may participate. Go to the webpage to create an account where you will enter your daily totals. You may count birds for fifteen minutes … Continue reading
Avian Friday: Chickadees
A commonly-seen winter bird is the chickadee which will come to your backyard bird feeder. Learn more about this bird at BirdNote, a daily two-minute program on-line and on public radio. BirdNote seeks to transport people out of the grind … Continue reading
Yesler Swamp Trail
Valarie says: The Yesler Swamp is a wonderful nature area and bird sanctuary, easily accessed from the east corner of the parking lot of the Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st Street. There is a signboard for starting point … Continue reading
Avian Friday: Owl at Discovery Park
Valarie says: It’s owl season, but spotting them takes time and patience. Our thanks to photographer Joe Sweeney.
Avian Friday: Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Valarie says: The Meadowbrook Pond is directly across from Meadowbrook Community Center (10517 35th Ave NE.) The Pond is an urban oasis and a refuge for birds.
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Tagged birds in northeast Seattle, Meadowbrook neighborhood
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Birds in Winter
Valarie says: Even in winter in Seattle there are birds to be seen, which is evidence of God’s grace in His creation.
Owl Season
Valarie says: It’s owl season! Our thanks to the Union Bay Watch blog for posting photos of the Snowy Owl as it migrates through Seattle in the fall and winter. There are also reports coming in of barred owls, a … Continue reading
Seattle Falcon Flies to Portland
Valarie says: Our thanks to the Montlaker blog for this story, and thanks to the Portland Airport Birdstrike Avoidance Team for moving this falcon to a safer place. I guess even falcons like to go shopping in Portland?!!