Even thought I have been busily engaged these past few weeks in publishing suggestions for Christmas gifts, I have most certainly not been forgetting (at least in my heart) the Born Again Bird Watcher readers of faiths other than Christianity. Therefore as this is the beginning of Hannukah, I hope all my readers of the […]
John E. Riutta
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Nine – the New Peterson Guide
As we here in Scappoose have been blanketed in snow for the past week (not a normal occurrence, to be sure) and last night were glazed with a sheet of ice atop the snow as well, “hunkering down” in our respective dwellings has become something of a local hobby as of late. While this situation […]
Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Eight – The Wingscapes BirdCam
For just about a year now, many of the photos and videos published on Born Again Bird Watcher have been made possible by the Wingscapes BirdCam. Had I been required to sit with camera in hand, assumedly in a blind or hide, for each of these images to be recorded, I doubt I would have […]
Interesting Fact
According to Gilbert Waldbauer, as recorded in his 2006 book "A Walk Around the Pond," there are some 450 species of Lepidoptera – all of which in this case are moths – whose caterpillars are either entirely aquatic (approximately 90 species) or semi-aquatic (the remainder). Peace and good bird watching.