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Shamelessly self-indulgent musings on diverse subjects from the author of A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America in the Peterson Field Guide Series, Attracting and Feeding Hummingbirds, and the title essay in Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders.

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 1W ago

Dispatches from the West preview: July/August 2012

My column in the July/August issue of WildBird magazine—the annual raptor issue—is devoted to the imperiled Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: On our first day of exploration, Clay, Pat, Tom and I encountered what we assumed was a Boreal Chickadee. Back at camp, we mentioned it to Bob. His eyes lit up

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 2W ago

Search of the week: “what could be the cause of a few of our hummingbirds dying”

This search makes me so sad, since chances are slim that these deaths are from natural causes. The leading suspects would be window collisions and pesticides, but a disease such as West Nile virus could also be involved. If you find dead hummingbirds near windows or glass doors, they probably died f

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 4W ago

Hot deals on the Audubon Birds app!

Who doesn’t love bargains? And if you’re a birder embracing the future of field guides, you want the best selection of bird ID apps that you can get. Well, hold onto your Tilleys: In honor of John James Audubon’s 227th birthday (he doesn’t look a day over 190), you can download the Audubon Birds app

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 1M ago

Search of the Week: are hummingbirds poisonous?

No. Where it’s legal to do so (not in the U.S., where they’re protected by federal law), you could handle and even eat as many hummingbirds as you want without suffering any ill effects. What’s that? Oh, you meant venomous. No, they’re not venomous, either. If they were, I’d know, because I’ve handl

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 2M ago

Dispatches from the West Preview: May/June 2012

Here’s a teaser from my column in the May/June issue of WildBird magazine—the annual hummingbird issue: By the time my eight intrepid companions and I rendezvoused at Beatty’s Guest Ranch, a couple of inches of the white stuff had already accumulated, turning the mid-April landscape of Miller Canyon

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 4M ago

Dispatches from the West Preview: March/April 2012

My column in WildBird magazine changed focus recently from backyard birding to western birding. Here’s a teaser from the March/April column, entitled “Bird prepared,” about a spring visit to Big Bend National Park: The birds had gone quiet, so now we paused only to catch our breath. Neither of us no

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 5M ago

Mountain-Gem Arts update

Wow. My polymer clay jewelry has been really well received. Most of what I’ve added to the shop in its first few weeks has already sold, and to fill demand I’ve made new versions of popular designs, including four Lucifer Hummingbird Hearts (so far). I’ve received other special orders, too. This is

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 7M ago

Diving into art

I’ve taken the plunge this week and become a working artist again. It’s not so much a mid-life crisis as an economic one. We’re in the middle of the fall shoulder season for birding in southeastern Arizona, which leaves me with several weeks of no SABO activties and also/therefore little or no salar

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 8M ago

Search of the Week: “can i give hummingbirds mountain dew?”

Answer: Seriously, why would someone even think of doing that?

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Life, Birds, and Everything · 8M ago

ROFL of the Week: How To not grandparenting

More fun with Engrish from a Google-baiting “blog” called How To bird watching and bird training tips: My minimal grandson likes to conduct points with me personally so I chosen to placed an exclusive hummingbird bird feeder proper external my cooking area corner exactly where we can easily take a s

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