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Recent content by Woody Thrush

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    Mallard egg shell mystery

    Dear Lynne77, I should hope so. Since then I have seen a mallard hen with her ducklings down on the creek and I'm hoping that they are from the nest that I saw and described to you weeks ago that had been next to our house in the lilac undergrowth. We've since removed that spent nest (with its...
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    Frederick MD area

    Yes, this is an old post, but dare I say even now that the Lilypons area and the Monocacy Battlefield are ideal locations for bird watchers/birders in Frederick County. By now I would imagine you've found both bird havens. You've probably had success in the various parks up in the Catoctin...
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    Bird Watcher vs Birder

    Down on the river whilst fly angling I pursue bird watching as well as fish. There I am a bird watcher. Here at home I think of myself as a bird facilitator... "Facilitator?" Yep. As a bird facilitator I build and maintain bird boxes for those lovely birds who frequent my yards, the tree...
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    Mallard egg shell mystery

    On Easter Sunday, the 9th of April whilst the grandchildren raced about searching for Easter eggs I spied a mallard setting on her nest behind a lilac thicket/flower bed next to the house. Very rarely since then would we check to see if she was still there. We did not want to disturb her, as...
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    Osprey flying round and round with fish?

    I smile to think that this behavior is associated with courtship and I imagine that it truly is, but let me share what many anglers have thought whilst fishing up on Rainbow Lake... Just 3 miles west of town up on the mountain is an 8 acre lake that is stocked with rainbow trout every March. On...
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