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LIST of TOPICS for 2013

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The Blue Jay, Cyanocitta cristata, is omnivorous and at
feeders often stuffs several kernels of shell corn into its crop.

(From the 1-15 Jan 2013 installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond.")

Listed below, by date, are nature topics covered in each installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 2013. Click on the date to go to a specific weekly account. You can also use the on-site Search Engine to locate a particular topic.

Each installment includes a list of birds banded that week--usually with stunning color photos--as well as any notable recaptures of banded birds.

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January 2013

  • 01-15--#561--Blue Jays, Cyanocitta cristata: Maligned But Most Important
  • 16-31--#562--A Mouse in The House: Which Peromyscus Is With Us?

February-March 2013

  • 01-12--#563--Mid-winter Miscellany: Wood Duck, Nandina, Fungi & Voles, etc.
  • 13-24--#564--Neotropical Hummingbirds 2013; Part 1: "The Nicaneers" at Montibelli, Nicaragua
  • 25 Feb-7 Mar--#565--Neotropical Hummingbirds 2013; Part 2: "The Belize Brata"
  • 8-17 Mar--#566--Neotropical Hummingbirds 2013; Part 3: "The Keystone '13" in Belize
  • 18-31 Mar--#567--Late Winter 2013 Happenings At Hilton Pond

April 2013

  • 01-14--#568--Early Spring 2013 Happenings At Hilton Pond
  • 15-28--#569--Late Spring 2013 Happenings At Hilton Pond

May 2013

  • 29 Apr-4 May--#570--A West Virginia Nature Festival & An Honorary Degree
  • 5-15 May--#571--Early May 2013: Tree Frogs, Spring Birds & Atlanta Audubon
  • 16-31 May--#572--Late May 2013: Hummer Flowers & Full Moons

June 2013

  • 1-30 Jun--#573--June 2013 At Hilton Pond: From Termite Devastation To A Geriatric Hummingbird

July 2013

  • 1-15 Jul--#574--Li'l Snakes: Sure Cure For Serpentophobia
  • 16-31 Jul--#575--Our Midsummer Day's Dream: A Deeper, Bigger Hilton Pond

August 2013

  • 1-15 Aug--#576--Hilton Pond Happenings: Early August 2013
  • 16-31 Aug--#577--West Virginia Flowers (Wild And Otherwise)--And Pollinators, Too

September 2013

  • 1-10 Sep--#578--Trees And Transients (Or, Wood And Warbler
  • 11-20 Sep--#579--September Couplets: Two Plants, Two Birds, Two Six-leggers, And A Couple Of Cryptogams
  • 21-30 Sep--#580--September Surprises: A Spider, A Dove, And A Bug

October 2013

  • 1-10 Oct--#581--Northern Flicker: An Atypical Woodpecker
  • 11-20 Oct--#582--Schweinitz's Sunflower: Endangered Species Revisited
  • 21-31 Oct--#583--Raise The Deck 'Midst Autumn Color

November 2013

  • 1-30 Nov--#584--Ujarráscals In Costa Rica: Hummingbirds Among The Chayote

December 2013

  • 1-7 Dec--#585--Wandering White-throat: A Long-lived Sparrow Meets Its Demis
  • 8-21 Dec--#586--23rd Annual York/Rock Hill (SC) Christmas Bird Count
  • 22-31 Dec--#587--2013 Bird Banding Results: Better Than Last Year, But Still Below Average

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