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Rural Chatter from La Veta...nestled against the Southern Rockies; a blog dedicated to the natural world...particularly birding and native gardening to attract birds, bees & butterflies.
- Beverly
- Please feel free to leave a comment by clicking 'comments' found at the end of each post. I'm still learning and find any comment helpful. Feedback is a good thing! Oh, and if you arrive somewhere inside this blog from an online search, be sure to click the main title, to get to the most current post. Also, at the bottom of this column is a list of 'tags'; click something you're interested in and it will bring up all posts on that topic. Cool, huh?
August Yard Birds (each name is linked to more information) * = Fly Over
- Black Phoebe
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Great Horned Owls
- Cordilleran Flycatcher
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Rufus Hummingbird
- Gray Catbird
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Great Blue Heron
- Yellow Warbler
- American Robin
- Bullock's Oriole
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Belted Kingfisher
- Cassin's Finch
- Turkey Vulture
- Common Grackle
- Lesser Goldfinch (green- and black-backed)
- Northern Flicker: Red-shafted
- Common Raven
- Evening Grosbeak
- American Crow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- American Goldfinch
- Pine Siskin
- Black-billed Magpie
- Red-winged Blackbird
- House Finch
- European Starling
- House Sparrow
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
Blogs I Enjoy
- Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds: A.C. Bent
- Burque Birding
- 10,000 Birds
- PEEPS Online, Bill Maynard
- BrdPics by Bill Schmoker
- Julie Zickefoose
- Bill of the Birds
- Ecobirder
- BirdChick
- Mr & Mrs Stokes
- Nature Tails & Camera Trails
- Beaverton Bird Blog
- The Marvelous in Nature
- Portland Backyard Birds
- Birds o' the Morning
- Bird Nerd
- John Rakestraw
- Birds & Nature
- Sibley Guides Notebook
- Prairie Ice
- Camera Trap Codger
- Brush and Baren
- Nature Remains
- Natural Gardening
- Walking Nature Home
- Northwest Nature Nut
- Portland Backyard Birds
- Nature Calling
- Cold Climate Gardening
- One Straw
- The Slow Cook
- Southern Rockies Nature Blog
- DJB Photo Adventures
- Mountain Plover
- Cons World
- Science Blogs
- ScienceGuy
- Grrl Scientist
Digiscoping
- Birding to the EDG - Mike Freiberg
- Leica Birding Blog-Jeff Bouton
- Swarovski on Digiscoping
- Digiscoping & Digital Birding
- Mike's Birding @ Digiscoping
- Awesome site by Ann Cook
- Info and Pics by S. Ingraham
- Who Came Up w/Digiscoping?
- Eagle Optics - Digiscopes
- Schmoker's Digiscoping Tips
- Page o' Digiscoping Links
- History & Experience from Gerd Rossen
- George Raiche's DigiBird
- Just For Fun...
Websites I Enjoy
- Wildflowers
- American Beauties (native gardening)
- Gardening for Wildlife!
- Garden Guides!
- Birds of Prey Foundation
- eNature FieldGuides ......... to Plants & Animals
- Sibley's Online Guide to Birds
- e-Bird
- Current US Rare Bird Alert - Interactive Map
- Audubon CBC Data...
- Several Awesome Free Podcasts!
- Cool, 2-page Hawk Guide
- Colorado Field Ornithologists
- The Nature Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- Increase your vocabulary...
- Colorado Birding Society
- VERY cool bird-quiz!
- Patuxent Bird Glossary
- Colorado Birder
- Bosque Bill's Place
- All About Birds
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Colorado Birding Trails!
- Bird Watcher's Digest
- FAQs about Birds
- Internet Bird Collection
- Audubon at Home
- Colorado Birdwatching Sites
- Arkansas Valley Audubon
- Birds of North America...online
- American Bird Conservancy
- About cats...
- Awesome Sound Library!
- Find a Colorado bird!
- Birds of Huerfano County, CO
- PBS Bird Videos
- Kevin J. Cook, Pathfinder
- F.L.A.P.
- Butterflies & Moths of Colorado
- Dragon and Damselfly Central
- Consultants: Wind Power
- Colorado State Extension
- Pond Information
- Backyard Meat Rabbit Raising
- Raising Organic, FR Chickens
- McMurray Hatchery
- Perennial Favorites, Rye CO
- High Country Roses - Own root
- Heirloom Roses
- Hardy Roses & Plants for Birds
- High Country Gardens, NM
- Santa Fe Greenhouses
- Forest Farm
- Klehm's Farm & Nursery
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- Baffling Squirrels: an update
- Corvids Part II - The Blue Jay
- Squirrelly Antics
- DIY Squirrel Baffle
- Local Jay Birds and the Steller's Jay
- Please Help with Bird I.D.
- What Do YOU See?
- Chewing the Fat
- Ecobirder Shares All
- The Columbidae in My Yard
- Great Horned Owls – Who Knew?
- Great Horned Owl
- Update: Bottled Water is Polluted!
- Every Litter-bit Hurts
- Project FeederWatch!
- Shrike: a Butcher Bird
- Don't Flush Your Drugs!
- Who Knew?
- Of Mice and Birds
- Spew, Barf, Gack! …an Update
- Starry, Starry Night
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4 comments:
Thanks, Beverly, you gave me a nice chuckle with that one.
I stopped into Walgreens to get my flu shot today and most of the staff were dressed in black as witches or demon fairies, even the pharmacist. They had a silver skull sitting on the counter, which was unintentionally both ironic and harking back to the bad ol' days of apothecaries, blood-letters, and such.
Somewhat strange, but I did get my modern day potion to ward off the Grippe.
Well thanks...I felt like I needed a 'cleansing' after my political spew!
I'm glad you took the cure...or potion! It's nothing to mess with!
I'd rather just write about birds...but even when I got home today; nothin. Heard a Raven; that was it. Saw a Kingfisher by a lake...that was cool. I'm almost wishing for snow; surely they'll come then!
I just looked at my monthly totals and I only had 16 species for October, down from 27 last month, and probably one of the lowest of the year.
Just looked at 2007 and I had 30 species in my yard this month last year.
Lets hope things change soon... and for the better.
You know...there are so many reasons I'm feeling anxious of late...and the decline in birds (the canaries of the mine?), is just one.
I'm sorry, but I've heard numbers reaching 70 and 80% declines...can that be right?
Lordy...what have we done?
Is it fixable?
Can we become what we were when America united during WWII? That is how awful this feels!
Can we unite and stop polluting and sucking our world dry? If we build Victory Gardens and consider the health of our environment... can we reverse this trend?
If we just say NO to trashing and depeating everything there is BEFORE it's all gone...can we save it?
Ya know...I'm working myself into a real frenzy here. I'm scared!
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