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THIS WEEK AT HILTON POND
LIST of TOPICS for 2019
(Our 20th Year of "This Week"!)

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Third-year Red-shouldered Hawk (above)
about to pounce on its lunch

(Photo above from the 1-31 Jan 2019 "This Week at Hilton Pond")

Listed below, by date, are nature topics covered in each installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 2019. 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 2019

  • 01-31--#686--Watching (And Reporting) Birds

February 2019

  • 01-12--#687--Another Diverse Mammal Week At Hilton Pond
  • 13-28--#688--Purple Finches: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

March 2019

  • 01-15--#689--More About Wood Ducks, The Hummer Migration Map, And An Aberrant House Finch
  • 16-31--#690--A Purple Finch And An Osprey (Or Two), All From Far Away?

April 2019

  • 01-07--#691--A Week Of Woodpecker Action
  • 08-21--#692--Woodland Wildflowers, Wildland Birds
  • 22-28--#693--Solving The Mystery Of An Elusive Banded Hummingbird

April/May 2019

  • 29-04--#694--A Special Shade Of Blue In West Virginia's New River Gorge
  • 05-31--#695--A Few "New" Hummers Arrive, Many "Old" Ones Return, Plus 69,000th Bird Banded Locally

June 2019

  • 01-30--#696--June 2019: A Turtle, More Hummers, One Old Cardinal, And A Faraway Goldfinch

July 2019

  • 01-20--#697--Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, And Me
  • 21-31--#698--Bull Thistle, "Good" Or "Bad?"

August 2019

  • 01-31--#699--Swallowtails & Swamp Milkweed

September 2019

  • 01-30--#700--And More To Come!

October 2019

  • 01-04--#701--Another New Species; This Time A Big Ol' Spider
  • 05-15--#702--Fall Migrant Warblers, And A Primer On Thrushes
  • 16-31--#703--Late October Bird Migration: Changing Of The Guard

November 2019

  • 01-12--#704--Audubon's "Chipping Squirrel"
  • 13-30--#705--Keeping Things Warm For Winter Birds

December 2019

  • 01-13--#706--Winter's Hungry Hawks
  • 14-21--#707--A Trip To Sweetwater Wetlands Park (Gainesville, Florida)
  • 22-30--#708--29th Annual York/Rock Hill (SVC) Christmas Bird Count
  • 31--#709--2019 Bird Banding Summary: One New Species, But Many Others Missing

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