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Golden Finch on a Thistle

Posted by sterlingphoenix at 10:32:05 on August 16th, 2010 | Category: Photos | Tags: birds, plants

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Dinner Time

Posted by sterlingphoenix at 23:53:46 on June 22nd, 2010 | Category: Photos | Tags: birds

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Sandhill Crane

Posted by sterlingphoenix at 23:10:50 on May 10th, 2010 | Category: Photos | Tags: birds

I noticed a couple of these just walking around the neighbourhood for the past few weeks. Yesterday I noticed one of them while we were driving home, so I grabbed the camera and got on my bike and tracked it [...]

Raptor Center

Posted by sterlingphoenix at 20:23:43 on May 9th, 2010 | Category: Photos | Tags: birds, too much text

We visited the University of Minnesota Raptor Center today. The raptor center is a combination vet/education center for and about raptors. They take in wounded raptors form all over the country and do their best to heal them, and then release them back into the wild.

Some birds, while healed, can’t be released back into the wild [...]

Pileated Woodpecker

Posted by sterlingphoenix at 21:23:07 on April 23rd, 2010 | Category: Photos | Tags: birds, really local

I love these guys. One day I hope to get a good photo of one of them on the tree BEFORE they fly over to the feeder.

This one’s a male. Last year I got a photo of a female eating out of the feeder, so I’m hoping there’s a bunch of them out there!

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Birds

Posted by sterlingphoenix at 23:14:44 on April 17th, 2010 | Category: Photos | Tags: birds, really local

I got a really nice cardinal photo:

Here’s a zoomed in section, you can see his beard:

And here’s a woodpecker on a [...]

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