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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
April 8, 2024 Eclipse Day Sunlight shakes talcum powder on the landscape. It begins with a nick in the yellow orb. The breezes of the morning now grow…
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Ken Lamberton
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
April 3, 2024 Half a dozen yellow-rumped warblers swirl around the leaf-rimed apple tree, chasing each other as if they’re playing a game of Cupid tag…
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Ken Lamberton
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
March 27, 2024 The last week in March began with highs in the upper 70s. The chokecherry unfurled leaves and spilled flowering racemes like tiny yellow…
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Ken Lamberton
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
March 21, 2024 The year’s first broad-billed hummingbird careens in, all orange beak and emerald shine. And then a second male, the two corkscrewing…
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
March 10, 2024 There are no birds. Again. My friend—one of the few who knew how to live life well with passion and verve and concern for the smallest of…
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Ken Lamberton
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
February 28, 2024 At first light this morning, a hermit thrush sips water at the top of the fountain, raises its head and flashes its wings. The bird…
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
February 21, 2024 My neighbor, Lucifer’s Mistress, sends me a text: “Female rufous confirmed.” Yesterday, I had asked her where they all were, the…
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