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Eskimo Kisses

Each of the birds at Wings to Soar has a distinct personality.  Yet, all of them seem to have a special bond with Dale.  I don’t know exactly how to describe what a bond looks like when it comes to...

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Another Turn for Cayce

The last, but not least, bird we exercised on Saturday was Cayce.  Cayce the wonder vulture.  I got to witness a new side to Cayce.  Cayce’s next door neighbors, a pair of Peregrine Falcons, are...

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Bird (and other Stuff) Walk

April is primetime for birding.  The number of bird species here increases dramatically during spring migration.  For example, while only a handful of Wood Warblers nest and breed in the Tennessee...

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Craven Birds

Today was a big birding day.  I got out birding with some really expert birders.  We met at Cravens House on Lookout Mountain.  When we arrived, I was surprised to discover that the gate to the main...

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Volkswagen Feuchtgebiet

5:15AM seems to be a time I can’t quite get away from.  When my alarm went off Saturday morning, I was not enthusiastic about getting out of bed.  But, I reminded myself I was going to get to see the...

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How Much Wood Would a Wood Duck Chuck?

Bright and early Saturday morning, I joined my fellow birders in a walk around the VW wetland.  After we saw many heron perched on their nests in a giant heron rookery and a collection of Canada Geese...

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Private Moments and a Merlin

Continuing our excursion through the VW wetland, we made our way around to the far side of the wetland from our entry point.  This side was on the VW plant side.  They were doing a lot of construction...

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VW Plant

There comes a time in every bird walk when someone much more knowledgable about plants than I am suddenly stops and points out a plant.  Often, the plant is a fungus.  Is a fungus actually a plant?...

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Hawk Hunt

On a Saturday afternoon, with only 1 day left in a “Birdathon” (a competition to find as many bird species as possible in a 3-week period), what’s a girl to do after returning home from spending 3 ½...

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Mind the Gap

I would now like to take a moment to interrupt your regularly scheduled program.  I discovered a set of photos from my last solo bird walk of the Birdathon over a week ago.  I suppose I was getting...

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When Work is Play

I have the opportunity to fill in for a friend of mine from Wings to Soar (formerly Save Our American Raptors) for a weekend.  I will be doing her part of the birds of prey show at Rock City–the Rock...

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Baby, You’re Not Quite a Star

Today’s photos are by my husband, Patrick Murray, shooting with the Canon Rebel T4i. As mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been in training on Saturday mornings.  I am learning how to be the assistant...

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Theo-logy

(All photos in today’s post by my husband, Patrick Murray.) I have 3 parts in the Rock City Raptors program.  The first is with Screech Owls (see yesterday’s post).  My second is with Theo, a Barn Owl....

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See Rock City

(All photos in today’s post by my husband, Patrick Murray.) In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I have 3 parts to learn to take on the assistant’s role in the Rock City Raptors program.  In reality,...

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Cayce Rules Rock City

Cayce and I have come to an understanding.  I understand that I am below her in her pecking order.  She understands that I will wear tall boots to avoid having chunks of my legs removed.  It’s not a...

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Final Curtain

One final post with guest photographer Patrick Murray (aka, my husband). This will be the last post from the Raptor Experience with my husband’s aunt and uncle.  It was a great experience.  They came...

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A Bigger Small World

Some days, it feels like you’ve reached an end of sorts.  I had one of those days this week.  I sat on our balcony watching the sky change to a gentle gray as the sun came up somewhere out of sight.  I...

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Meet Tom Turkey

Meet Tom.  Tom is a Bourbon Red heritage turkey who is free-ranging it on a farm in Wildwood Georgia where the grass is green, the sun is bright, and the hens are . . . well . . . at the moment,...

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Showing Up

I remember once, many years ago when I was teaching for a community college prison program, having a conversation with another instructor who was telling me about advice he’d given a student.  He’d...

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