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Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers

March 28, 2018 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers

 Wood WarblersThis Winter of 2018 has been long and cold and quiet.  It is nearly April and I long for the return of our songbirds, especially the Wood Warblers.  The first green shoots of snowdrops have begun to push through the thawing crust of soil.  Sugar maples are tapped and the sap has been flowing for awhile now.  Steam is streaming out of sugar shacks throughout the countryside.  On warmer days our year-round birds are singing.  Robins and White-throated Sparrows are turning over leafy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Birds, Black-and-white Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Chestnut Sided Warblers, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula, Palm Warbler, Songbirds, Warblers, Wood Warblers, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler Tagged With: Birds, warbler

A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse

December 11, 2013 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse

December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand. Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts. I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . .  offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Bestiary, Birds, Black-and-white Warbler, Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens, Warblers, Wildlife

A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse

December 11, 2013 by Carol Duke Leave a Comment

December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand.Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts.I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens.The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . .  offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might click … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Bestiary, Birds, Black-and-white Warbler, Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens, Warblers, Wildlife

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