Tag Archives: birds

Promised Land

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An end-to-end walk in Bishop Woods takes you from New Haven to East Haven. First you head east through a gate past the Bishop Woods School parking lot, then, midway, you take a 90-degree turn to the north. It’s fairly …

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Wings and Prayers

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As the fall season begins, another one is taking off: the fall migration season. …

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Flight Club

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A photo essay. To view all 17 images, check out the email edition.

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House and Home

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The birdsong in the open lot behind my apartment has diversified these past couple of weeks. But for months before, it was a colony of House Sparrows dominating the airwaves. …

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Winged Words

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The little, black-capped chickadee is one of the hardy birds that has just weathered the winter with us. Its …

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Promised Land

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An end-to-end walk in Bishop Woods takes you from New Haven to East Haven. First you head eastward from the Bishop Woods School parking lot, then you take a 90-degree turn to the north. It’s easy to stay on course. …

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Flight Club

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A photo essay.

The first rule of Flight Club is: You do not talk about Flight Club. Not in English, anyway. …

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Flight Club

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The first rule of Flight Club is: You do not talk about Flight Club. Not in English, anyway.

Chirps, caws, trills and squawks, however, are totally acceptable. …

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Muck and Admire

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This year’s was an especially tough winter, chilling and perilous and exhausting. But somehow its cruelest feature is that, after enduring so much extra hardship, our prize is no different than usual: a drab, barren…

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