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BIRD TALK: NESTS - HOMES FOR BIRDS
By Greg DunneJuly 24, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – Bird nests can be hard to observe. We usually just stumble across them out in nature. One place you can always see a large variety of Egret and...
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BIRD TALK: MIGRATORY BIRDS
By Greg DunneDecember 17, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – Our County has many migratory birds. This week, I’m highlighting two of them: the Northern Shoveler Duck (although a few will stay year...
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BIRD TALK: MT. FORTUNA’S WRENTIT
By Greg DunneJanuary 24, 2014 (Mission Trails) -- Instead of being glued to the sofa and TV watching championship football games to see who will be going to the Super Bowl, I got a big pay-off with a...
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BIRD TALK: THE ELUSIVE BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER
By Greg DunneMarch 15, 2014 (Cowles Mountain)--The Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher is a small songbird living here in our East County that reminds me of the Wrentit. It mainly reminds me of the Wrentit because...
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BIRD TALK: THE COMMON HOUSE FINCH & NOT SO COMMON RELATIVES
April 21, 2014 (San Diego’s East County) --There is a staggering estimated population of up to 1.4 billion House Finches across North America. If the birding scientific estimates are accurate, that...
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BIRD TALK: THE GREAT BLUE HERON
By Greg Dunne August 8, 2014 (Lake Murray) --Always dazzling when you see them with their long S-shaped necks, usually standing motionless, they look as if...
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BIRD TALK: THE COMMON RAVEN
By Greg Dunne August 10, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--The Raven has such an undeserved reputation--always associated with darkness, despair, death. Right...
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BIRD TALK: SPOTTED TOWHEE (MISSION TRAILS)
By Greg Dunne December 9, 2014 (Mission Trails) --So striking are the looks of the Spotted Towhee that you can’t take your eyes off him until he ducks out of...
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FREE AS A BIRD: BIRD IDIOMS AND CULTURE
By Greg Dunne December 19, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--“Free as a bird.” I might be a bit biased on this subject, being an avid birder, but I believe in...
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BIRD TALK: TURKEY VULTURES
By Greg DunnePhotos by Greg Dunne and Norman Banks February 28, 2015 (Lake Murray)--The Turkey Vulture is one of the largest birds in San Diego’s East County....
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