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Have you ever been to the store to purchase a couple items only to walk out with a receipt that’s actually longer than the itemized one you get at the super market? Sadly, it’s a trend that’s becoming all too common these day.
Ironically, these are often given to me by stores that purport to be [...]

It was a beautiful Thursday so my wife, son and I went for a picnic at Atkinson Common in Newburyport, Mass. The sun was out, there was a hint of a summer breeze, the clouds seemed to be avoiding our section of sky and flitting amongst the evergreen and viburnum trees was a small, active [...]

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It’s that time of year again, when the Red-winged blackbirds have arrived in force to our neck of the woods. Coming from area marshes, meadows, fields and wetlands in Salisbury, Newburyport and Newbury, they often come to the fields, woodlands and yards of Amesbury during spring foraging trips.
In fact, they came in huge numbers around [...]

The total lunar eclipse that took place on Wednesday night, February 20, 2008 was nothing short of spectacular.
About 40 degrees high in the eastern sky, the bright full, white moon slowly darkened from Earth’s shadow over the course of a couple of hours. While it was hard to see the shadow actually creep across the [...]

Today, the last day of the GBBC, was a rainy, balmy President’s Day and from our vantage points, it looked like many of the local birds decided to stay dry. The sun started to peek out around mid-afternoon. It was a slow day for birding, so, not much to report.
Here is today’s tally:

Blue Jay - [...]

We were primed and ready for the GBBC - Day 3 today with an avian smorgasbord.
We had two feeders filled with black oil sunflower seeds, one feeder filled with peanuts, a platform feeder with nyger seed and chopped apple, some more peanuts piled on a giant tree stump, another platform feeder filled with corn and [...]

It’s Saturday, February 16—day two of the GBBC—and it was a slow morning thanks to the squirrels that gorged themselves on corn, sunflower seed and peanuts yesterday. At one point, there were three of them hanging and feasting on the feeder at one time.
We ran a few errands earlier in the day and picked up [...]

It’s day one of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and by 7:30 a.m. we had four bird species visit our feeders. And one pesky squirrel who approached our feeders with impunity. It was quickly shooed away. The rest of the day produced some more local species and a boat-load, or feeder-load, of squirrels.
This is [...]