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Winter is here. Local winters in past years.

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Living in the Pacific Northwest (AKA Pacific North-Wet), means mostly rain and not much snow.  However, the Cascade and Olympic Mountains are within a 2-hour drive from most places.  Here are some pictures of the area where I live, from previous years. My own back yard bird feeder, with a junco and song sparrow. This …

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Birds-like you see every day…but different

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Wherever I go, I watch for birds.  Even in my back yard, I love watching our birds at the feeder.  Normally, juncos are ground-feeders, but ours just love hogging the feeder, watching for chickadees and nuthatches who might want to get in. This is a junco and our song sparrow vying for the preferred station …

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Something else I found on my trip to Hawaii…Birds!

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I am an amateur bird-watcher, and when I see a new one, I check it off on my "Life List", which is in the back of my 1960s edition of Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds (which is now a collector's item).  Fortunately, in this guide are two pages of pictures of Hawaiian …

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Ooh, Shiny! Look at that cool bird! (Edit: see below for addition I just couldn’t resist)

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I love bird-watching, and when I'm outdoors I try to find them.  But sometimes, when I'm doing something else, one will catch my eye. This guy was on the roof of an accessory dwelling in the back yard of a friend in Colorado.  What a place for a feeder! We were surprised when a family …

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