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    Any birding ideas for a science fair project theme?

    My 6th grade son really wants to do something related to birding for the upcoming science fair. I would greatly appreciate any ideas...we live in Alabama, there is a wildlife refuge for ducks/waterfowl migrating and some eagles nests about 30 minutes away. We could do the old "which bird food...
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    Albino Red-tailed hawk!

    My mom and I were coming home and she pointed out a white bird sitting on the telephone wires. As we passed, I realized it was an albino red-tailed hawk. My mom turned around so we could see it better and we got to see it fly off from the wire. We are going to try and return to the spot to...
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    Traveling to England...any bird lists for us?

    Hi all! I have an 11 year old that is fascinated/obsessed with birding. His face just lights up when he talks about them! We've pretty much found most the birds in our area over the past year...but at the local wildlife refuge there are species that just wander through every now and then and...
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    Hummingbird licked my finger!!!!

    I thought I had a great encounter with a hummingbird last year....one was caught in our garage hitting against the ceiling and exhausted, when I went to help it....it latched to the front of my shirt and I could feel the heartbeat against mine...it allowed me to walk it out of the garage and...
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    Traveling to London/Oxfordshire in September, any recommended birding sites?

    Hi all! I have an 11 year old son that has a fascination (great) with birds. He can identify almost all the birds in the US guides and even knows most the English birds...he has probably invested over 300 hours just studying each guide he can get his hands on...so I really wanted to make some...
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    No picture, but the best description I can make..

    This morning I heard a caucophony (sp?) of "screeeeep"....there were about 10 birds perching in the tops of some tall oak trees. They were flying back and forth between two trees and I realized a red-tailed hawk was perched by them and one of these birds was trying to attack the hawk.. As they...
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    Need help from folks who've made their own boxes....

    Hi all! I have a 10 year old son that has not waned in his excitement and interest in birding. It started about 5 months ago and grows daily. He's at that age where I think having a hobby/project would be good for him. Today we decided it would be a good idea to start making birdhouses as a...
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    Traveling to the UK in 2006..any great birding sites?

    We will be going next Fall..most likely the end of September. We will only have about 2 weeks to stay and are trying to map out where we should go. My 10 year old is fascinated with birds so I would like to try and hit London for the museums and history then spend a week driving around to the...
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    Double Crested Cormorant in Alabama! :)

    Once again, my 10 year old budding ornithologist outmarks me! :) We were driving along a wooded residential area and my son noticed an unusual bird in the water...I looked at it and thought at first it was just a duck decoy...it was sitting so still and not really moving. It was a smallish...
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    Dead finch today, are we causing it?

    I returned from my am walk this morning to see my poor 10 year old son with tears in his eyes and said, "Mom, I found a dead finch on our brick patio and I just buried him." Now just reading that it sounds kind of pitiful...but knowing how deep a hobby birding has become for my son (he names...
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    Toughie...trying to identify this bird by it's call....

    Any good southern birders out there? I've lived in the south 35 of my 37 years...and I've atleast familiar with most birds. I often hear the whipoorwill or bob-white and know the common chirps of most birds...atleast to know it's a common chirp. But early in the morning (around 7am) I was...
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    Mommy, mommy, it's a PILEATED!!!

    Okay, my dear son (age 10) is an obsessed budding ornithologist...his holy grail is to see the ivory billed pileated...working on a camping trip up that part to go on the quest..but this morning outside our back yard not 20 yards from our house was an official pileated woodpecker..he's never...
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    New bird for us...brown headed nuthatch...

    My 10 year old son wanted the gang to know that he found our first brown headed nuthatch..y'all were helpful in identifying our white breasted nuthatch a couple of weeks ago and that started a whole new world of ornithology for our three children! We live in Huntsville, AL and in a wooded...
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    Need to buy our first pair of binoculars....

    We're officially hooked...new to birding fun and we're ready to take it a step further..started out just by identifying birds at our feeder but then there is always that shy bird resting in our neighbors tree that we get so curious about. Today, returning home my 10 year old was so excited to...
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    Any plant suggestions for new back yard in Alabama?

    We are off to a good start with four birdfeeders...we've been here a month and we're in a woodsy area. Our lot was completely cleared of all it's trees but our back neighbor has atleast 10 big ones and two are diseased so we see lots of woodpeckers and nuthatches cleaning it out...so far we've...
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    Hi from Alabama, US!! :)

    Wow! I never knew bird identification could be such fun! We have just moved to Alabama from TN by way of WA by way of GA...whew!! Our poor children have been through some moves! They are 10, 7 & 6 and I thought for Mother's Day I'd like to get an assortment of birdfeeders to hang outside our...
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    Hi guys!!

    I'm soo excited to see my son (10 years old) so excited about our new hobby of identifying new birds....we moved to Alabama a month ago and to help them with this move I put up some bird feeders to see if I could get the kids interested. Well, it worked!! He's found a woodpecker atleast we...
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