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kadiebird – Up North Nature Notes

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Up North Nature Notes. A space for observations and reflections including northern natural history, backyard bird watching, and outdoor adventures. July 15, 2015. Snowberry clearwing moth feeding on milkweed flower nectar. It was pretty exciting seeing this moth yesterday because it was a first. From a distance, it looks like a really big bumblebee. I looked it up and found out it is called a Snowberry clearwing moth. It likes the bergamot and marsh milkweed. Posted in Urban wildlife. July 12, 2015.

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Newly spotted pollinator – Up North Nature Notes

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Up North Nature Notes. A space for observations and reflections including northern natural history, backyard bird watching, and outdoor adventures. July 15, 2015. Snowberry clearwing moth feeding on milkweed flower nectar. It was pretty exciting seeing this moth yesterday because it was a first. From a distance, it looks like a really big bumblebee. I looked it up and found out it is called a Snowberry clearwing moth. It likes the bergamot and marsh milkweed. This entry was posted in Urban wildlife.

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Spring 2015 Florida Trip – Up North Nature Notes

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Up North Nature Notes. A space for observations and reflections including northern natural history, backyard bird watching, and outdoor adventures. March 11, 2015. Spring 2015 Florida Trip. We didn’t have enough time in Florida last spring, so Andrea decided to make it happen this year: she binge-worked the first part of February and crammed all her shifts together so as to have an entire week off at the month’s end. It happened to coincide with some truly below zero weather in Minneapolis. Anyhow, the b...

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Pacific NW Birder: April 2013

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Enjoying and learning about birds in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and northern California. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Add photos to your checklist. You can embed photos, videos, and recordings of unusual or exciting birds to your checklists. If you have a photo sharing website you can find the URL of your image and insert it directly as:. HTML code: img src="http:/ your-photo-sharing-site/your-photo-name.jpg" /. If you use Flickr you can use the "share" function and copy the code. Beginners...

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Nature's Archive Blog: Surf Scoter

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A Look At Birds, Butterflies, Insects, Lizards, and Mammals of the American West. When I moved to California, some birders I know said "my condolences" when I mentioned I'd lived in Arizona before. Arizona's reputation for being a wildlife mecca is well known, and the locals here in the Bay Area look on with envy at the rare tropical species that the southeast Arizona sky islands bring in. One of my local favorites so far has to be the Surf Scoter, a winter resident along the west coast. Female Surf Scot...

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Nature's Archive Blog: Flesh Fly Macro

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A Look At Birds, Butterflies, Insects, Lizards, and Mammals of the American West. Last evening I found this fly resting on our Pink Fairy Duster (Calliandra Eriophylla). About the size of an adult small fingernail, it nonetheless caught my eye with its bright orange eyes. As always, I am amazed at the fly's compound eyes (click on the photo for a larger image):. The exact species of this fly will likely never be known. According to many resources, only a dissection will allow for exact identification...

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Nature's Archive Blog: Madera canyon to Mt Wrightson - 9453' Elevation

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A Look At Birds, Butterflies, Insects, Lizards, and Mammals of the American West. Madera canyon to Mt Wrightson - 9453' Elevation. After thinking about doing it for months, I finally decided to take a crack at hiking Mt Wrightson. I only first heard of this mountain about 18 months ago when I first traveled to Madera Canyon, south of Tucson. After seeing it, it has been a goal in the back of my mind to hike it. Numerous Yarrow's Spiny Lizards were seen along the trails. This ponderosa pine trunk had a ve...

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Nature's Archive Blog: May 2013

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A Look At Birds, Butterflies, Insects, Lizards, and Mammals of the American West. As a fun home project, my daughter and I decorated and hung a chickadee house this spring. Within a few days, we had a chestnut-backed investigating it. On the unlikely hopes that a second family will still rear young, we cleaned the house out yesterday. The nest they had built inside was amazing - made of animal hair and a little bit of grass. After taking the bottom off of the house, this is what we saw:. Explore more: Ba...

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Not the Pacific Northwest - Pacific NW Birder

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Enjoying and learning about birds in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and northern California. Saturday, December 7, 2013. Not the Pacific Northwest. December 6, 2013. As you can see from the photo above I am no longer living in the Pacific Northwest. So this is the end of this blog. It started covering backyard birds of the Pacific Northwest [See Backyard Birds of Portland, Oregon. In most cases this has been an educational. Blog, not a personal. What would be its topic? Love the palms. ...