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Stubborn Mama
And you think your job is boring? Try being a bluebird mama, sitting on eggs, day after day waiting for them to hatch. It will take this female bluebird approximately two weeks to incubate her eggs. Only the female developes a brood patch, an area of skin on the belly where there are extra blood […]
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Swainson’s Hawks Nesting at Dyess
Last week (end of March) I was out at Dyess AFB monitoring bluebird nest boxes on the golf course when a large dark object in the top of a mesquite tree caught my eye. A Swainson’s Hawk! I got the scope out, attached the camera to it, and took the picture here that you see. […]
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Inca on Nest
Kathy Hampton left town the other day to see her new granddaughter. When she returned she found an Inca Dove in a motherly way, sitting on a nest made in one of the hanging baskets on her front porch. A digiscoped image was taken from the street (so as not to disturb mother). When the […]
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Great-horned Owl at Waste Water
This Great-horned Owl was spotted on one of the towers out at the Waste Water Treatment Plant in Jones County on March 11, 2006. Owls are among the first resident birds to nest. This female will incubate her eggs for about 30 days; the chicks will leave the nest five weeks later but stay nearby […]
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Longspurs Sighted South of Abilene
McCowan’s and Lapland Longspurs hunkered down in a field during our weekend cold spell. Click on the title to find out where.