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Category: bird watching

Bird watching: assemblies

By Jack Posted on November 30, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with dove, northern flicker, Steller's jay sighting Campbell River Vancouver Island

Self-tutoring about bird watching: the tutor mentions combinations one might see here in the fall. Here, on the east coast of Vancouver Island, we’ve a lot of birds that don’t migrate. It’s warm enough here over the winter, one supposes, …

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Bird watching: Steller’s jays in the cedar stand

By Jack Posted on November 16, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with Steller's jay sighting Campbell River Vancouver Island

Self-tutoring about local birds: the tutor mentions a favourite. I’ve mentioned Steller’s jays in numerous posts: for instance, in my post of October 18, 2020. Then, on October 10, 2025, I mention their return this year. Although, as I think …

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Bird watching: violet-green swallow

By Jack Posted on November 4, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with farm, swallows

Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor recognizes, in retrospect, the violet-green swallow. Back in my post from May 29, 2023 I mention watching barn swallows – maybe a flock of one or two dozen – at a farm. What I don’t …

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Bird watching: hummingbird in late October?

By Jack Posted on October 19, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with Anna's hummingbird, nectar

Self-tutoring about local birds: the tutor mentions a hummingbird he saw. Here, we had a powerful storm yesterday: very windy, lots of rain, etc. This morning, it’s calm. I stepped out to check the air and see what the storm …

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Bird watching: Steller’s jay returns

By Jack Posted on October 10, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with acorn, bird call, starling

Self-tutoring about local birds: the tutor mentions a favourite that’s been visiting lately. I do a lot of yard chores, so am often outside. The other day, I recognized a call from an old friend: a Steller’s jay. As usual, …

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Bird watching: the junco who lost its tail, continued

By Jack Posted on July 23, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with Oregon dark-eyed junco, tail feathers

Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor follows up about a recovering junco. In my posts here and here I discover and revisit an Oregon dark-eyed junco, at first missing its tail, that visited me. By the second post, it had recovered …

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Bird watching: the junco without tail feathers, part 2

By Jack Posted on July 1, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with Oregon dark-eyed junco, tail feathers

Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor continues about a junco he saw about a month ago. In my post on June 3, I mention noticing a junco lacking noticeable tail feathers. Said bird was with another, apparently similarly able. To be …

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Bird watching: a tale of two juncos

By Jack Posted on June 3, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with Oregon dark-eyed junco

Self-tutoring about bird watching: the tutor mentions a junco sighting. I often see Oregon dark-eyed juncos. Today, two came near a window I was sitting by, so I could observe them, it seemed, without their noticing me. I love to …

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Bird watching: red crossbill

By Jack Posted on May 14, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with red crossbill

Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor mentions an observation. Yesterday I was outside, near a tall Douglas fir. I noticed movement in it, so looked up. I think it was a northern flicker making the movement. Once I was looking up, …

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Bird watching: downy woodpecker?

By Jack Posted on February 1, 2025 Posted in bird watching Tagged with residential, woodpecker

Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor mentions a sighting. Last weekend, I went out momentarily to check the temperature. Immediately I heard a wooden thud-thud-thud-thud…what could it be? Looking around, I caught the sight of a woodpecker’s head moving back and …

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