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Red and the Peanut

http://redandthepeanut.blogspot.com/

A Cincinnati Birding and Nature Journal. Join me as I hike through woods and fields searching for our beautiful birds and and any other wildlife I encounter along the way!

Added on: Jul 7th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Kelly Riccetti
Listed in: Birds Birdwatching
Tags: art Nature birds birding cincinnati birdwatching

Recent Posts

Without leaves, these sweeties are a lot easier to see!

Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 09:44 in little miami river, pileated woodpecker, little miami bike trail

As the leaves fall, the view gets better, so I'll be able to see a lot more of the resident Pileated Woodpecker pair that flies the stretch of the Little Miami River I walk frequently. Every time I'm there, I hear their calls, but viewing in the summ...
Red-shouldered Hawk at Fort Ancient

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 23:27 in red-shouldered hawk, fort ancient

...continued from the Brown Creeper post at Fort Ancient.After finishing the Mound Trail loop, I walked up the gravel road toward the Twin Mounds, and there, across the street in a large tree at the forest's edge sat a Red-shouldered Hawk. He was bea...
Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 00:11 in happy thanksgiving

Rick, Matty and I got to work early this evening and made two apple pies (Mom will be making the pumpkin pies!). We peeled, and cored, and sliced...mixed in the spices and raisons...and popped them in the oven. Then we had to sit there and smell all ...
I saw something really creepy at Ft. Ancient yesterday...

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 23:04 in brown creeper, fort ancient, flash cards in full color, teach me about birds, bird flash cards

...a Brown Creeper--one of my favorite winter birds! I love the high-pitched peeping noises these tiny little pieces of moving bark make. Perfectly camouflaged, they are sometime hard to spot.I am the tree...Sunday, when Rick and Matty took off for h...
Sing out little wren...

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 00:26 in carolina wren, backyard birds

...I like knowing you're out there as I work at my desk.Carolina Wren singing on a small trellis on my deck. What a happy little bird the Carolina Wren was today, or if he wasn't, he at least made me happy. This morning as I fried an egg, he sang, an...
A Common Loon

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 00:22 in common loon, caesar creek state park, birds of ohio

...continued from the Large Milkweed Bugs post.Let’s hop back a week to Saturday, Nov 7, when I went to Caesar Creek State Park with the Cincinnati Birding Club and saw 10+ Common Loons. My photos of the loons were horrible. We were so far away tha...