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Barred owl sitting on a tree branch at the edge of the woods on Owl Acres. The bird is looking directly at the viewer.

Who Cooks for You?

Updated September 17, 2022

The barred owl is one of my favorites. I love to hear its easily recognizable call and its mate’s response. This year we’ve had at least one pair calling in the afternoons and evenings. They call and respond, and once in a while they have a more heated conversation and even a bit of squawking. […]

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Songbird with dark grey, almost black body and folded wings, prominent red-orange breast, yellow beak and black eye thinly outlined with white, stands in a patch of green grass dotted with yellow and pale purple flowers.

Cheerily Cheerily Get Up Get Up

Updated August 2, 2022

American Robins Photo credit: Richard Wilson I am trying to sleep in. It’s the third day of my retirement, and I don’t want to get out of bed. But the robin outside my window has other ideas. He sings his cheery song loud and clear. Some people think of it as “cheerily, cheerily cheer up […]

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