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Orioles will be attracted to feeders offering grape jelly and citrus during the next few weeks.
A female or young-male ruby-throated hummingbird is attracted to a cardinal flower plant because the blooms are red.
A whip-poor-will is difficult to see when it hides on the forest floor but is a bit easier to spot in a tree.
Glistening cobalt-blue above and tawny below, barn swallows dart gracefully over fields, barnyards and open water in search of flying insect prey. Look for a long, deeply forked tail that streams out behind the agile flyer and sets it apart from all other North American swallows. Barn Swallows often cruise low, flying just a few inches above the ground or water. It seems to have adopted humans as neighbors, typically placing its cup-shaped mud nest in barns or garages, or under bridges or wharves; indeed, it is now rare to find a Barn Swallow nest in a site that is not manmade. -- Lewisboro Field Guide fieldguide.lewisborolandtrust.org
The changing of the seasons is affirmed with the arrival of our migrating avian friends. The actual snowbirds have come to tell us that spring is here.
Chris Hardie
Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise animals and crops on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he’s a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past-president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.
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Glistening cobalt-blue above and tawny below, barn swallows dart gracefully over fields, barnyards and open water in search of flying insect prey. Look for a long, deeply forked tail that streams out behind the agile flyer and sets it apart from all other North American swallows. Barn Swallows often cruise low, flying just a few inches above the ground or water. It seems to have adopted humans as neighbors, typically placing its cup-shaped mud nest in barns or garages, or under bridges or wharves; indeed, it is now rare to find a Barn Swallow nest in a site that is not manmade. -- Lewisboro Field Guide fieldguide.lewisborolandtrust.org
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