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Gardening Secrets  by Kenny Point   Harrisburg, PA  
Gardening Tips   flowerpotheaven.com/gardeningtips
Daves Garden
 

 

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas
 from NPR  (National Public Radio)

A group of wildlife scientists believe the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. They say they have made seven firm sightings of the bird in central Arkansas. The landmark find caps a search that began more than 60 years ago, after biologists said North America’s largest woodpecker had become extinct in the United States.

The large, showy bird is an American legend -- it disappeared when the big bottomland forests of North America were logged, and relentless searches have produced only false alarms. Now, in an intensive year-long search in the Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges involving more than 50 experts and field biologists working together as part of the Big Woods Partnership, an ivory-billed male has been captured on video.

"We have solid evidence, there are solid sightings, this bird is here," says Tim Barksdale, a wildlife photographer and biologist.  They kept the find a secret for more than a year, partly to give conservation groups and government agencies time to protect the bird’s habitat.  The Nature Conservancy has been buying and protecting land along the White and Cache Rivers for years, along with the state and the federal Fish and Wildlife Service. Since the discovery, they've bought more land to protect the bird.

An artist's image of what an ivory-billed woodpecker looks like. So far, naturalists have captured only a fleeting video image of the rare bird in Arkansas.



Rediscovering the Ivory Billed Woodpecker
The Nature Conservancy
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  audubon.org
Madison Audubon Society
Birding.com
 wisconsinoutdoor.com/birds.htm
Wisconsin Rare Bird Alert   virtualbirder.com/vbirder/realbirds/rbas/WI.html

Birds and Blooms   a beautiful magazine.  Cathy is also a subscriber.

 bird watchin buzz.blogspot.com  Shari Carpenter, California
 birdwatchin.com  also Shari's site

51 year old Laysan Albatross
Nigel's Puffins  page 3
 bird watch.blogspot
John's Bird page
The Nest Box
Birds of Midway Island

surf birds.com 
Surfbirds Blogs is a free weblog community of online birding diaries and journals. The largest collection of birding blogs anywhere on the web!
    surfbirds.com/blogs/Stercorarius

bogbumper.blogspot.com  Katie Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK  
Caroline P.  Borders Life .blogspot.com   beautiful photos    Scotland

 

added 12-25-5
 
 

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

APRIL SHOWERS
(musical version)

APRIL SHOWERS

It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on the hill.
The clouds of grey engulf the day
And overwhelm the town...
It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining roses down.

It isn't raining rain to me
But fields of clover bloom
Where any buccaneering bee
May find a bed and room.
A health unto the happy,
A fig for him who frets....
It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining violets.

Robert Loveman


 

Spring is Here!!!

Smells by  Kathryn Worth

 

   

Through all the frozen winter
My nose has grown most lonely
For lovely, lovely, colored smells
That come in springtime only.
 

The tall pink smell of peach trees,
The low white smell of clover,
And everywhere the great green smell
Of grass the whole world over. 

The purple smell of lilacs,
The yellow smell that blows
Across the air of meadows
Where bright forsythia grows.

     

     

 

Summer Night
Jean McKinney

A summer evening's lovely
With its shadows blue and deep
And its busy crickets strumming
Drowsy songs to make us sleep.

With its flitting fireflies glowing,
With its stars so big and bright,
And its gentle breezes sighing
Little secrets through the night




 

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens
 
 

 
     
     

     
     

     

 
 
Something told the wild geese

Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered - "Snow."
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned - "Frost."
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild breast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly -
Summer sun was on their wings,
winter in their cry.

-Rachel Field-

 
 

 

 

 Proverbs 16
24   Pleasant words are as a honeycomb,

sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
 

 

Art Deco ButterFly Pillow

National Wildlife Butterfly Pillows

 
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Charity Bears

 
     

 



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