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I sat on the top step to watch it for awhile. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:15:45 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/looking-for-a-name.html Rather than relaying a story, I am just trying to discover what type of bird this is. This is a photo of a bird perched on the narrow 3/4 rim that Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:06 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/baby-bird-found.html This morning we found a baby bird on the ground. It didn't seem to be harmed so my husband picked it up and brought it inside as we didn't know what Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:55:02 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/bluebirds-in-winter.html I found out quickly that if you put up more than one bluebird house you will get a show you did not expect. I thought it would look so cute to put 3 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:30:49 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/this-poem-is-for-the-birds.html Mad as a wet hen, a little bird told me, It's a fowl thing for poems that reference us to be as scarce as hen's teeth and it would be a feather in Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:44:43 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/sunning.html Though camouflaging with the floating log, Reptilian roundness cannot quite disguise, As morning rays break through the morning fog, Two traveling Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:08:57 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/wrens-in-hanging-plant.html We have a spider plant on our back deck hanging under the eave. It's going to get mighty chilly tonight in Cincinnati, so my husband just brought the Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:45:17 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/i-provided-42-liters-one-week.html I live in Cusihuiriachi, Mexico and I love Hummingbirds. I can not believe myself. I had to make 42 liters (11 gallons) of nectar in one week to keep Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:54:37 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/robin.html Robin Bolding about the freshly turned garden, Drilling at worm and centipede, Picking over hand raked soil, Unruffled in your clock hopping quest Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:58:42 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/at-home-in-the-pines.html The giant pine trees in our front yard have been a haven for many of nature's creatures over the years, and August, 2009 was no exception. I retired Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:47:51 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/leaving-the-nest.html This is an update on an earlier post which described the mourning doves nesting (for the second time) on top of our iron entry lamp. In spite of the Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:08:39 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/mournng-doves-nesting-on-entry-lamp.html We had enjoyed the cooing of the doves in front of our house. Then some six weeks ago, we noticed a mourning dove sitting on top of our approximately Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:45:59 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/to-fly-away.html To Fly Away We're here, we're here, cried the baby birds to their mother who perched on high. We were so afraid when we left you Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:50:46 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/found-cedar-waxwing-almost-gone.html Some little girls found the poor thing on its back after hurricane bill. It was near dead, small cut and barely moving. We nursed it back to health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:57:34 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/baby-blue-jay.html We have a Blue Jay, we call JAY. he/she fell of a pine tree from nest. We took care of JAY for 2 1/2 months. JAY would follow us all around the Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:58:20 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/baby-mourning-dove.html I went for a walk and came across a baby Mourning Dove. He was too young to be out of the nest and had a cut on his/her (not sure) leg. He was Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:31:42 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/hummingbird-shock-and-awe.html We are lucky enough to have many hummingbirds frequent our flowers and feeders. They have amused us all summer, our first as avid bird watchers. We Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:42:59 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/a-robins-circle.html Last year, my wife Gail and I were both warmed to the point of gladness to be sharing our lives with a pair of robins who chose to nest and brood in a Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:53:01 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/baby-doves-first-set.html I started noticing twigs all over in a corner above our front door. I kept sweeping them away only to discover more the next day. Why I looked up I Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:59:57 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/our-summer-with-the-robin.html It was 6-23-09 and scraggle pusser the cat came inside bringing us a gift. There laying at my feet, on our ceramic tile entry, was a tiny pink and Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:00:29 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/our-chimney-sweeps.html I live in an old house in East Kingston, NH. Over the years, starlings have made their home and hatched their young in a vent that leads to our Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:56:02 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/nest-in-fake-tree.html This spring we had robins build a nest in an 8 ft. tree that is in the atrium area of the front door to our house. At first I did not even see the Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:54:03 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/robin-nest-on-garden-hoe.html My husband first found the nest. He would walk out through our gate to his pick-up and wonder why Robins were diving him. Then one day he noticed Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:46:08 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/our-fifth-dove-chick-this-year-.html We have had a female dove nesting in the same hanging flower basket on the porch for the past three years. This year however, she has returned on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:56:22 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/mother-2-babies-in-nest.html We have found a Mourning Dove nesting in our tree, we soon discovered she had 2 babies. They seem to be doing fine. We have enjoyed seeing them and Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:14:34 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/akooah-the-baby-waxwing-bird.html One day I took my 11 year old brother and his friends to the park. We were just swinging on the swings until a young boy came over with a baby bird Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:07:38 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/no-nest-no-parents-no-hope.html Thank you for the information provided, however there is no useful information when you have no choice but to keep the bird and help it learn to fly Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:05:00 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/bogart-fledgling.html The Encounter: I was walking through my kitchen this morning And saw my new kitten Bogart out on the doormat. I also saw that he was pawing at a Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:38:09 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/wrens-falling-out-of-nest.html We have a little bird house in our yard that is used every year 2-3 sets of babies a season. It is not uncommon to occasionally find a small baby on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:30:35 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/homemade-dove-nest-works.html In an attempt to keep the doves out of my plants I hung a basket in my patio, filled it with twigs and baby tear (a ground cover) and within 2 days I Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:55:45 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/doves-how-long-off-the-eggs.html We have a trellis to our back yard where doves have chosen to lay there eggs. For several days we watched as both ground doves work on the nest. At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:51:07 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/what-to-do-with-five-abandoned-babies.html We purchased a ceramic birdhouse several years ago, never thinking of it actually being USED by birds, but pretty much for decoration. When the tree Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:01:18 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/nest-near-new-home-constuction.html We are building a new home and some trees needed trimming to make room for the home. Our tree trimmer was on his backhoe and happened to look over to Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:30:50 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/raided-by-racoons.html My 12 year old daughter came running into the house, she held out her hands to reveal three very young nestlings. She knows to leave young birds Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:50:21 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/doves-nest-in-hanging-ivy.html We had a sweetheart ivy hanging by the patio doors. The doves built a nest in the middle of the ivy. It was cute. It looked like an artificial Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:16:52 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/lost-and-found.html Today (7.21) I found a baby bird on the side of my house. I knew it was in a jam being so close to the ground and with my two dogs running around the Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:13:20 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/doves-abandoned-nest.html Well my story begins in late May, early June 2009I was doing some gardening near my patio. I decided to take a break & sat down and noticed some Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:14:22 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/wren-nesting-in-basket.html I had brought an old used robins' nest into the house several years ago. It sat in a basket and was an interesting conversation starter and fun for Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:38:07 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/dove-back-second-year.html We have a mated pair of doves that have built their nest in our hanging basket under our front archway. They had a nest with two nestlings last year, Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:08:29 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/too-young-to-fly-now-theyre-back-what.html I have a hanging basket under the eave of my porch. I didn't plant anything in it this year and it is simply dirt and some dried stems of earlier Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:21:31 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/sandhill-bluebirds.html Up until 3 years ago I had never in my memory seen an Eastern Bbluebird. I travel the woods and streams fishing and hunting every year. As a child I Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:18:28 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/hanging-begonia-plant.html We had hung a begonia plant out on our deck and everyday noticed that petals were suspiciously falling off along with some stems. My wife also Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:50:12 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/dove-wont-leave-plum-tree.html Ever since early spring I have been hesitant to prune my plum tree in the front yard because there has been a dove nesting in it. Her eggs have Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:26:29 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/robyn-robin.html We found this little one flapping around for about 5 hours with no mom in sight. We brought her in and started feeding her Wellnes chicken cat food Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:23:10 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/doves-on-my-balcony-part-4.html After the last month's success story, the new couple laid 2 eggs in the same nest. One hatched 2 days before the second one, so the chicks are in 2 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:56:38 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/found-a-finch-fledgling.html This is the second one I have found in the same exact spot, the first was hairless and eyes closed. this one looks like it could fly off at any time. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:16:32 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/back-door-robin-mates-again.html I was cooking Hamburgers for my wife and I on our back deck. I knew there was a Robins nest built on the under hang of the deck at our door entrance Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:29:26 GMT http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/saved-from-the-dogs.html Today, our dogs pulled a nest out of the brush pile in our back yard. Inside the nest were two newly hatched babies. My son was able to rescue it Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:28:21 GMT