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Our Backyard Birds in Summer

Recently Sanny Wroblewki and Whitney Redding sent me photos of some summer bird action on Add Drive.Whitney carefully got this shot of the new House Wren hatchlings sleeping in a stroller pocket. Soon...

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo In Luria Park

Early this morning in hopes the humidity was less we headed out to see any fall migrating birds heading south. We spotted a Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the maple tree by the bridge in Luria Park.The...

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Red-breasted Nuthatch: Winter Visitor

This afternoon, October 13th, we saw for the first time in our yard, a Red-breasted Nuthatch. He was flitting around our half dead dogwood tree by the street. I managed to get one decent photo for you...

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Red-headed Woodpeckers in Luria Park

On the Raymondale side of Luria Park, to the left of the entrance, high on a tree snag is what we are pretty certain is a Red-headed Woodpecker nest cavity. Today we observed two RHWO in and around a...

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More About Luria Park Red-headed Woodpeckers

Our Luria Park Red-headed Woodpeckers have attracted the attention of the local birding community. If you see folks in the park with binoculars you know why. And if you don't have a pair of binocs, you...

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Merlin in Luria Park

Late in the day on March 1st,  we spied a slender silhouette darting above the tree tops like Top Gun fighter jet. The bird landed on a tall tree top to the north of the boardwalk in Luria Park and we...

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Forgaing for Buggy Delights

I spent a good part of the afternoon on March 7th in Luria Park near the Raymondale entrance. A lot of leaf flipping on the forest floor caught my eye. A male Northern Flicker was exuberantly thrashing...

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Nesting Season!

Dan, Lisa Byrd, and I walked Luria Park this afternoon and saw evidence of nesting!Here is a female Red-bellied Woodpecker excavating a nest cavity. We watched her tossing out beak-fulls of saw dust as...

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Oh, Say Can You See...A Bald Eagle in Raymondale!

On Tuesday, April 4th at one in the afternoon Mary and Mike Cogbill on Add Drive got excellent views of a Bald Eagle perched about 35 feet up in a tree in their next door neighbor's yard. To Mary the...

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In Our Yard: The Indigo Bunting

Welcome Spring and all of the birds migrating to and through our neighborhood!This afternoon, I happened to see a young male (and molting) Indigo Bunting in our pink dogwood tree. He foraged for...

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A Lot of Birding Going on In Luria Park

On Saturday morning, April 29th, Dan and I walked the boardwalk at Luria Park just off the footpath and up to the first (smaller) bridge. We didn't go much farther than that as we were content to...

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Warblers, a Rare Sighting, and Neighborhood Bird Walk

On Saturday, May 13th, despite the heavy cloud cover and occasional drizzle we found that warbler migration season is in full swing! Luria Park was packed full of these colorful wee migrants who most...

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It's Fledgling Season!

On Wednesday, neighbor Tony Britton sent me photos of two fledgling American Crows. I have observed the adults earlier this spring carrying nesting material, just couldn't find the nest. So a big...

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Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Fall Migration and Hurricanes

With September comes the ramping up of fall migration for neo-tropical songbirds. We have observed in our yard for over a week now, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds feeding aggressively form the cardinal...

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An Unusual Sighting at Fairview Park Pond

This afternoon Whitney Redding sent me a message about a bird she saw at the small pond by the Fairview Park Marriott. She wanted to know what this sleek, hook-billed bird she saw was. She took a photo...

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Spring Is Finally Here

This morning, April 23rd, I birded Luria Park for about an hour. So happy to our spring birds have returned. Some may stay and some may go.The highlights included an Ovenbird foraging in the leaves. If...

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Spring Migration is in Full Swing!

Hello!Luria Park and our backyard on Brad Street have given us lots of spring/summer birds!The highlight was a Cape May Warbler seen at the Luria Park playground on May 2, about 9:30 oin the...

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May 6 Was Migratory Bird Mania In Luria Park

Dan and I spent two hours in Luria Park around lunch time today (May 6th) and were rewarded with lots of migratory birds! The recent cold front most likely brought them in and we were thrilled to see...

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The Bay-breasted Warbler

This morning in Luria Park I saw the Bay-breasted Warbler which is an uncommon warbler. He winters in northern South America, flies along the eastern Central American and Mexican coast, goes up the US...

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Fun Around the Neighborhood Ponds

This afternoon, Dan and I were alerted to an unusual bird at the pond next to Jaguar rail. We headed over and found a Black-crowned Night Heron!This cool bird winters along the southern Atlantic coast...

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