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05-14-2013, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Maybe we could just put in some manure and open the windows?  Oh well, I did put up little shelves under the eaves our second year here. No luck. (It still hasn't quite sunk in that we actually do have a barn.)
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05-14-2013, 05:17 PM
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Maybe they just haven't found you yet. Are there other barns around? Perhaps you just need to scatter some hay around, and walk around with a halter and say "tut, tut, where is that horse?"
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05-14-2013, 08:50 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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From what I've read, once there is a colony, the birds don't look for other sites--until it is too crowded or disappears, I guess. There are other barns around. The neighbor has one that *is* open, and I've never seen any barn swallows there, so I have to assume I'm out of luck for now. Even if the neighbor had them, I'd get to see them sometimes.
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"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." ~ Lorrie Otto ~ A Native Backyard Blog ~ |
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05-15-2013, 07:14 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: powell,Ohio
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I spotted another migrating visitor to my backyard this morning. A black and white warbler! That brings my backyard species list up to 59 species
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05-15-2013, 07:23 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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You make me realize that I need to make a species list! ...What has taken me so long?
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"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." ~ Lorrie Otto ~ A Native Backyard Blog ~ |
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05-20-2013, 06:54 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: powell,Ohio
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More new visitors to my backyard this weekend. Common yellowthroat, yellow rumped warbler, and American redstart.
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05-20-2013, 10:46 AM
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I want to come and visit Recurve during migration sometime! Very cool birds!
I have a greater crested flycatcher hanging about my woods for the past few days. My windows look out into the tree canopy, which is probably the only way I get to see him. No photos yet, but I am trying...
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05-27-2013, 04:19 PM
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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No flycatcher photo, but a nice nuthatch.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden |
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05-27-2013, 05:14 PM
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WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Sweet!
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05-31-2013, 06:29 AM
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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 Porcupine filling up on buds.  And this is??????
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