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LIST of TOPICS for 2017

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This second-year male Blue Jay (above), captured
on 9 Jan 2017, was the 65,000th bird banded at
Hilton Pond Center since 1982.

(photo above from the 1-31 Jan 2017 "This Week at Hilton Pond")

Listed below, by date, are nature topics covered in each installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 2017. 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. (Also available at top of this page to right of the logo.)

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 2017

  • 01-31--#650--January 2017: Winter, Spring, Or What?

February 2017

  • 01-28--#651--American Goldfinch: Quick Change Artist

March 2017

  • 01-31--#652--March 2017: In And Out Like A Lion, Or a Desert Fox, Or Maybe A Polar Bear

April 2017

  • 01-16--#653--Bird Eggs (Part 1): They Don't Really Come From Bunnies
  • 17-30--#654--Bird Eggs (Part 2): Laying, Incubating & Hatching

May 2017

  • 01-15--#655--15 Years Of "Almost Heaven" In Fayette County, West Virginia (and The Passing Of Ela)
  • 16-31--#656--Birds of May 2017

June 2017

  • 01-30--#657--June Reptiles At Hilton Pond

July 2017

  • 01-15--#658--Mid-Summer Flowers: Sparse, But Eye-Pleasing
  • 16-31--#659--Duckweed Turnover: Mixed Blessing For An Ever-changing Pond

August 2017

  • 01-31--#660--What Happened In August?

September 2017

  • 01-30--#661--Hummingbirds In Mississippi . . . And Back Home

October 2017

  • 01-31--#662--Fall Migration 2017: A Scarcity Of Birds

November 2017

  • 01-30--#663--November Nature: From Fall Migrant Birds To Duckweed Death

December 2017

  • 01-22--#664--Two Bird Encounters--A Continent Apart
  • 23--#665--27th Annual York/Rock Hill (SC) Christmas Bird Count

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