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Common Bully Birds of Winter: Top 5 Tips to Stop Them

Winter bird feeding can be both enjoyable and annoying. Enjoyable when all of your favorite feeder birds, like nuthatches, woodpeckers, titmice, and chickadees and wrens arrive, but annoying, even enraging, when birds, usually foul European transplants that don't even belong here (but that's an...
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Winter and Waterfowl

Though winter may seem like a strange tine to be at a lake hunting for birds, it really isn't. Winter is a great time to be at a lake searching for ducks. Ducks migrate south later than many birds, and come into the area in winter, while most birds are through by September.   ...
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Pileated Woodpeckers in Ohio

   Some woodpeckers are quite common in Ohio during the winter. Most likely, if you have suet out for the birds in winter you will often see red-bellied woodpeckers and downy woodpeckers. Hairy are less common, but still frequently seen throughout the state of Ohio. Northern flickers...
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Eagle Cam Moderated Chat Opens January 6

   Just a friendly reminder that on January 6th. the eagle cam Moderated Chat will be officially opening for the 2013 eagle cam season. It will probably open later in the evening, but if all goes better than planned (which it rarely does) it may open at noon (but probably not). Though...
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Random Picture Post

       I was going to make this into a contest or somthing, but I decided not to. Here are the answers (L-R Top-bottom) Yellow-Headed Blackbird Bald Eagle Blue Jay Red-Shouldered Hawk Osprey Willow Ptarmigan Pileated...
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Free Download(s) From JB Photography

   From now until January 2nd., you can choose from 6 special desktop wallpapers for FREE download! Go to the JB Photography 'Members' page here. You will then need to enter the password "ohbirds6" (without quotation marks) to be able to view the page. Below the download...
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'Magic Halo' Review

(IGNORE MISSPELLED WORDS; THERE ARE PROBABLY ALOT OF THEM...thats what happens when I get in a hurry...)    I was skeptical at first... I began hearing reports that if you take a loop of stiff wire with smmaller, thinner wire with weights attached to the bottom...
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Temporary Website Upgrade

   Just for fun, Birds of Ohio was upgraded for a 3 month period. So, from exactly 3 months from today, this special service will end. This special was given by our web hosts, Webnode, to every customer for three months as a Christmas gift (and hoping we will give them a gift...
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Bald Eagle Moderated Discussion Opening Date Changed

   Today, December 13, the opening date of the bald eagle moderated discussion was pushed back from December 20th. to January 6th. The reason for the change is that the eagles don't really frequent the nest until it is near the time for an egg to be laid. Usually the Decorah eagle pair...
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Decorah Eagle News

2nd eaglet hatches

   Today (4/4) the second eaglet, D19, hatched. There is now one egg left to hatch, which should do so in just a few days.
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First egg hatches

   At 10:22 EST, the first eaglet of the season, D18 hatched. Pictured below is a screen shot of the first glimpse of the newly-hatched eaglet.    The next eggs should hatch 3-4 days apart, and three days after this egg.
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