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An Avian Santa Claus

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Dan Greaney

Santa Claus isn’t the only one in a pointy red cap who flies around in winter handing out presents. Pileated woodpeckers do, too. As a matter of fact, they fly year round, delivering gifts through large swaths of North American… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors, Lead Story Bird Words
14

Bird Words: Silky Flycatchers – Bird with a Shiny Robe

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Dan Greaney

Some birds just won’t do without a little pizzazz in their doing.  Phainopeplas are among them, tip to tail. They are slight birds, the length of a pencil, and nearly as much tail as anything else.  But their eyes are… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors, Lead Story Bird Words, Dan Greaney
9

California Condor: Coming soon to a sky near you

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Dan Greaney

For some people, there is a hole in the sky, a blank spot.  The condor is missing. When humans first crossed the Bering Strait into North America condors soared widely across the continent.  Their fossils have been found along all… Continue Reading →

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3

Eared Grebes Tone Things Down for Winter

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Dan Greaney

There is, apparently, a lot to be said for having a time of rest: trees drop their leaves and go dormant; fungi retreat underground; insects wrap in cocoons, and chipmunks hibernate; lizards and turtles brumate–the reptilian version of hibernating; we… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors Bird Words
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Buntings: A Tale of Time, Song and Brilliance

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Dan Greaney

This season last year we had a torrent of reports of lazuli buntings scouring through the Whiskeytown brush and in the chaparral all around the North State.  These little birds attract attention because they are visually stunning. A superficial description… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors, Lead Story BirdWords, Dan Greaney, Larry Jordan
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You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen–Well, One

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Dan Greaney

The white-breasted nuthatch is one of a kind. Photo by Larry Jordan. Perhaps you have seen white-breasted nuthatches in your yard. They’re heart-warming little clowns, upside down more than right side up, with quizzical smiles in their dished-up bills, and… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors, Lead Story BirdWords
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BirdWords: Spotted Sandpipers Dance to Their Own Tune

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Dan Greaney

If you stroll along the river much lately you likely see a brown bird the size of a handspan strolling, too. But you might notice that, unlike you, it is busy poking about the shoreline for insects and crustaceans, and… Continue Reading →

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BirdWords: Home, Sweet Home: Bluebirds in the Neighbor-woods

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Dan Greaney
male bluebird

This male western bluebird tends his family in a woodpecker-carved oak at Lema Ranch. Photograph by Larry Jordan There’s a little piece of sky fluttering through the neighborhoods and neighbor-woods of the North State. Actually, many little pieces. But they… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors, Lead Story, Opinion Birds, bluebirds
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Bird Words: American Kestrels, Looking For a Good Home

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Dan Greaney
American kestrel

American kestrels are striking, with burnt-red backs and tails, steel-blue wings on the males, and bold falconid markings, black and white on the face. All this is packaged into a little hawk that could perch on your finger, and can… Continue Reading →

Great Outdoors, Lead Story, Opinion Birds, Dan Greaney, Larry Jordan
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Bird Words: Northern Flicker – A Red, White, and Blue Bird

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Dan Greaney

We are just beyond the United State’s election season, and it’s not too big a stretch to see red, white, and blue in some of our feathered aboriginals. Many colorful birds have headed to Mexico for the winter, but northern… Continue Reading →

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