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For a decade I lived on a small chain of lakes in Central Florida and became absolutely spoiled with chances to bird watch. I moved from that condo two years ago, and it is one of the things I miss most about living there. I don’t miss that the lake got so high during a hurricane in 2017 the water was a foot from my… Read more

I like looking at the birds in my yard that often come to my feeder (chestnut-backed chickadees, California towhees, house finches, golden-crowned sparrows) and get excited about the one scrub jay and mourning dove that show up more rarely, and the black phoebes that only stop by once or twice a year. There are crows… Read more

Chickadees really are little hogs! They’re always the first birds to notice that we’ve refilled our feeder, and are surprisingly aggressive about it, even though they show up in groups. Even if the feeder is full and six perches are available, they seldom will tolerate one another at the feeder, and they grab their… Read more