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Marcia Davis: Young screech-owls need ground time with parents
Published 6/2/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
It's rare to see young screech-owls just after they leave the nest. Rachel Smith and her son Jeff Smith described their close encounter with two recently fledged eastern screech-owls as a National Geographic moment.
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Marcia Davis: Walk along waterfront reveals many species
Published 5/26/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
A walk along the waterfront at Oak Ridge's Haw Ridge Park offers a great opportunity to see some fascinating birds that live and nest along Melton Hill Lake's shoreline.
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Marcia Davis: Noisy great crested flycatchers prefer houses that swing
Published 5/19/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
"Wheep! Wheep! Wheep! Whit-whit-whit-whit. Prrrrrrrrrreeet. Prrrt. Prrrt. Prrrt."
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Marcia Davis: Conservation actions for migratory and mother birds
Published 5/12/2012 at 6:00 p.m. 0 comments
Happy Mother's Day. Today is also International Migratory Bird Day. Let's give a shout out to all the hardworking migratory and mother birds. Let's also give them some help as they go about the important business of hatching eggs, feeding ...
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Marcia Davis: Power line right-of-ways attract nesting prairie warblers
Published 5/5/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
Last weekend I explored with Jim Rome of Oak Ridge part of a new extension of Oak Ridge's Melton Hill Lake Greenway. We followed the freshly asphalted trail and boardwalk underneath the Edgemore Road (Tenn. Hwy. 170) bridge that crosses ...
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Marcia Davis: Treetop singers announce presence but hide well
Published 4/28/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
Scarlet tanagers and rose-breasted grosbeaks are two of the most brilliantly colored migrant songbirds passing through Tennessee right now. The two beauties are favorites of area birdwatchers. At migration hotspots like Knoxville's Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park, their presence never fails ...
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Marcia Davis: Nesting brown-headed cowbirds get help from others
Published 4/21/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
If a bird egg is an investment in the future of a species, brown-headed cowbirds follow a smart investment strategy. They don't put all their nest eggs in one basket. I mean one nest. They diversify by allocating each egg ...
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Marcia Davis: Location is key to attracting purple martins
Published 4/14/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 3 comments
More than a million people put up housing for purple martins in North America. Many of them fail to attract martins.
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Marcia Davis: Singing warblers are a sure sign of spring
Published 4/7/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
Are you still seeking signs that spring is here for keeps? Then rise at dawn, go outdoors, cup hands behind ears, tilt back your head, and listen intently to the dawn chorus of birds. The singing warblers you may hear ...
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Marcia Davis: Will early-blooming flowers attract early hummers?
Published 3/31/2012 at 2:00 p.m. 0 comments
Will ruby-throated hummingbirds arrive early this spring? If they do they'll find an abundance of early-blooming flowers and unseasonably warm temperatures.
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Marcia Davis: Report bald eagle nests to help estimate population
Published 3/24/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
Most birds build nests in places where the nest is partly or completely hidden by vegetation. Birds nest more successfully and fledge more offspring if a nest is not disturbed or detected by predators.
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Marcia Davis: Barred, great horned owls adapt to life in suburbs
Published 3/17/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 0 comments
"Interesting how birds that we had to go out to rural areas to see continue to make their way back into our backyards" wrote Morton Massey of Knoxville. Morton reminded me of the time in the 1970s when his father, ...
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Marcia Davis: Pileated woodpecker cavities used by other animals
Published 3/10/2012 at 1:00 p.m. 1 comment
The presence of pileated woodpeckers in a wooded area is important to many other animals. Large, strong, chisel-shaped bills equip pileateds to play the crucial role of chief excavator of tree cavities.
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Marcia Davis: Spotting rails in Tennessee is a toss-up
Published 3/3/2012 at 3:00 p.m. 0 comments
A cluster of Blount County ponds bordered by cattails proves the value to birds of even small parcels of wetlands.
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Marcia Davis: McClung prints offer closer look at waterbirds
Published 2/25/2012 at 2:00 p.m. 0 comments
The Frank H. McClung Museum on the University of Tennessee campus is exhibiting 90 colored prints of waterbirds selected from the museum's extensive collection of ornithological prints.
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