Half of all birds species nest in tree cavities. Knowing the speces that do can help with your conservation efforts.
Birds
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Fall Hawk Watch Comes To Close, Sightings 6% Below Average — PA Environment Digest Blog
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Berks County Thursday reported the autumn Hawk Watch tallied 17,012 raptors in over 1,000 hours of effort. The overall total was 6 percent below the 10-year average.Four species were spotted in above-average numbers, including turkey vultures, bald eagles, broad-winged hawks, and peregrine falcons. The broad-winged hawk total count, 10,726, was 36… via […]
More Snowy Owls This Winter?
via Hold Onto Your Bins: Another Blizzard of Snowy Owls Could Be Coming | Audubon
How and Why Birds Change their Plummage.
via Why birds lose their feathers — What are bird molts? | Audubon
Birds by Color: Orange Birds
A male Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) feeding in the grass. Public domain photo courtesy Ken Thomas. Orange birds aren’t very numerous. There are only four orange bird species here in North America. These photographs will help you decide which one you are looking at. Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). Photo by By Andy Reago […]
Birds by Color: Blue Birds
What is that blue bird that is hanging out in your backyard? To the In Season readers who ask those questions I gather together photos of blue birds find in the eastern region of North America. All the photos were found on the Internet and thanks to all the folks who help with bird identification […]
The Relationship Between Birds, Berries and Fruit
I have been watching the ripening of the fruit on the Shadbush tree in my garden. The birds take almost all the fruit every year. But, the relationship of the birds, the plants and the seeds have much to teach us about life on Earth. In the eastern deciduous forest, where I live, over 300 […]
Attracting Birds with Fruit Trees and Berry Plants
By planting fruit and berry plants you can bring a wider variety of birds to your garden or backyard. There are many birds that are primarily fruit eaters and they may not visit your seed feeders. A way to draw them into your garden is by providing fruit. But supplying birds with dried fruit is expensive. […]
How a Cardinal Makes His Red Feathers
The male Cardinal glided into my garden. I marveled at the brilliant plumage as he flew from post to fence to the bird feeder. I wondered about that blaring red color. I wondered what made it so, very, very red? I wanted to know the scientific explanation of the what caused such saturation. So, I […]
Birds by Color: Red Birds
An easy method of learning to identify birds in your backyard is learning to identify birds by color. Feathers give birds the colors that catch our eyes. Are you trying to identify birds by color? Have you seen birds that are red or have touches of red? Here is a photo gallery of birds which […]
