POTD 5/31/24
May 31, 2024 - BABY BIRD TIME - Baby Robins waiting to be fed...in a nest in the protection of our solar array.
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POTD 5/30/24
May 30, 2024 - BABY FOOD - A Common Grackle with a beak full of food. I watched it take the bounty to a tree cavity where little beaks...
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POTD 5/29/24
May 29, 2024 - YOUR SLIPPER M'LADY - Pink Lady Slipper blooms near the beaver pond. A true forest orchid - also called a Pink Moccasin...
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POTD 5/28/24
May 28, 2024 - RAINY DAY NAP - A Mourning Dove hunkers down for a nap in the rain on Memorial Day in New Hampshire.
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POTD 5/27/24
May 27, 2024 - THAT EARLY ONE - A Robin with a beak full of worms heads back to the nest.
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POTD 5/26/24
May 26, 2024 - THROWING SHADE - Adult Heron shades the nest during a hot sunny day. Heron chicks hatch nearly naked and need protection...
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POTD 5/25/24
May 25, 2024 - EARLY IMMATURE SAPSUCKER? - We spotted this Sapsucker without it's characteristic black and white barred back. It seems...
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POTD 5/24/24
May 24, 2024 - SWALLOWTAILS RETURN - An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on waning Azalea blooms. The Tiger Swallowtail is the most...
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POTD 5/23/24
May 23, 2024 - SPLISH SPLASH - Robin takes a bath in a puddle on the driveway. Hot temperatures have made their way to New Hampshire an...
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POTD 5/22/24
May 22, 2024 - THREE CHICKS - Heron Chick update - of the three nests on the beaver pond only one has chicks big enough to see over the...
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POTD 5/21/24
May 21, 2024 - WILDFLOWER BUNCHES - Bunchberrry blooms are starting to show up in the forest. The Bunchberry is (obviously) in the Dogw...
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POTD 5/20/24
May 20, 2024 - STYLISH DO - A female Cardinal sports a particularly red crest. The Cardinal's pointed crest is strictly feathers. The e...
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POTD 5/19/24
May 19, 2024 - SUMMER DIET - A Chickadee with it's insect lunch. Chickadee's summer diet is mostly caterpillars and other insects and a...
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POTD 5/18/24
May 18, 2024 - CHICKS GROWING - At least one Heron chick has grown enough to be seen (occasionally) above the edge of the nest. Cute -...
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POTD 5/16/24
May 16, 2024 - CAN YOU SPOT THE CHICK? - After many years of watching Herons on the beaver pond - I know to look closely when I see an...
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POTD 5/15/24
May 15, 2024 - IN YOUR BREECHES - Male Hummingbird extracts nectar from a Dutchman's Breeches bloom. In the Poppy Family - the name com...
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POTD 5/14/24
May 14, 2024 - ORANGE YOU GLAD - The male Baltimore Oriole has been eating bugs in the Magnolia, grape jelly from the feeder and the or...
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POTD 5/13/24
May 13, 2024 - SISTA BRUNCH - Two female Purple Finches munch black sunflower seeds in a near mirror image.
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POTD 5/12/24
May 12, 2024 - THE GIRLS ARE BACK - Male and female birds don't usually migrate together - with males arriving first and alone and fema...
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POTD 5/11/24
May 11, 2024 - SPRING CARDINAL - Maple leaves coming out around him - a male Cardinal sports a jaunty-looking crest for Spring mating....
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POTD 5/10/24
May 10, 2024 - STRUCK GOLD - Goldthread blooms along the brook from the beaver pond. Goldthread is in the Buttercup Family and gets it'...
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POTD 5/9/24
May 09, 2024 - MERLIN BIRD ID? - A Chipmunk taking over a birdhouse on the patio.
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POTD 5/8/24
May 08, 2024 - TRILLIUM ON THE WAY - A Painted Trillium on it's way to opening on the brook from the beaver pond. The Spring wildflower...
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POTD 5/7/24
May 07, 2024 - NOT A GOOD FIT - A Tree Swallow checking out a nesting hole on the beaver pond......moves along after determining it is...
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POTD 5/6/24
May 06, 2024 - MADE ME WONDER? - A Gray Catbird rummaging around under the bird feeders yesterday made me wonder where the phrase "in t...
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POTD 5/5/24
May 05, 2024 - ORANGE IS NEWLY BACK - Two male Baltimore Orioles showed up in the yard yesterday. My Facebook memories alerted us that...
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POTD 5/4/24
May 04, 2024 - ANTLER SPROUTS - Young male deer shows his antler buds while taking advantage of grass greening up in our yard. Each yea...
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POTD 5/3/24
May 03, 2024 - WELCOME ADMIRAL RED - A Red Admiral butterfly showed interest in the Daffodil blooms. A member of the Brushroot Family,...
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POTD 5/2/24
May 02, 2024 - NUTCRACKER - Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the sunflower seed feeder. Grosbeaks usually come back on the same day as ma...
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POD 5/1/24
May 01, 2024 - FOREST STARTING TO BLOOM - Blooms of a Hobblebush Viburnum over the brook from the beaver pond. No forest wildflowers ye...
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