Monday, April 29, 2013

Feathered friends


Today, while near Providence Plaza, I think I got a glimpse of a Peregrine Falcon.  Cool.
I occasionally have been checking out the Audubon Society of Rhode Island's website and webcam of a pair of Peregrine Falcons.
There has been a nesting pair of falcons on one of Providence's taller buildings for a few years in a row.  The Audubon had set a "nest"- three walled box and a webcam to watch.
One can see the parent sitting on her rocky nest.  When she moves away, one can view her eggs, or young.  They hatched last week.
It's cool.
http://www.asri.org/general-conservation-info/providence-peregrine-falcon-webcam.html

Yes, I also feed and like to watch the birds in my yard.  We get some pigeons, a cardinal pair, mourning doves, sparrows and of course squirrels- gotta love them.
The city of Pawtucket has it's birds and animals.  Granted we're in a more suburban part of the city.  The houses are close yet not on top of each other and every house has some amount of a yard.
One day I saw a ground hog.  And oh, one year there seemed to be a population boom of wild turkeys because we spotted one or two here and there.  who knew.  :-D

I do know the birds seem to sort of know me and fly and sit off a way when I go out in the yard.  They chirp a bit when I fill the feeder.  Let everyone knows "it's refilled, seeds here". 



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