Ronnie Blackwell

Beginning in January, 2008, the Mississippi Sun Herald began publishing a weekly article for me. I will be posting links and pictures here from those issues. Thanks for reading.

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7-27-09:  A Pomp of Emperors & A Snootful of Snouts (PDF)

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7-20-09: The Big Yellow Bird (PDF)

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7-5-09: A Long-Forgotten Paper Spurs Gull Debate (PDF)

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6/28-09: Crazy over Larophiles! (PDF)

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6/21/09: Beware the Bandit Butcher Bird (PDF)

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6/14/09: A Highway for Judy (PDF)

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6/7/09: The Little Fish with the Big Reach (PDF)

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5/31/09: Yes, I Said Leave Them Alone(PDF)

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5/10/09: If It Waddles & Whistles Like a Duck . . . (PDF)

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4/26/09: Now is the Time to Feed on Excitement (PDF)

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4/20/09: Cardinal Rules (PDF)

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4/19/09: The Best Easter Basket Ever! (PDF)

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4/12/09: A Dauphin Island Sunday (PDF)

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4/5/09: The Flying Start of “Field” Goes Back 75 Years (PDF)

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3/29/09: Northern Flicker Hammers a Hello (PDF)

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3/7/09: An Empid Told Me So (PDF)

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2/28/09: Eastern Screech Owl (PDF)

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2/08/09: Counting Backyard Birds (PDF)

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2/1/09: What a Bird is the (White) Pelican (PDF)

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1/25/09: Snowy, with a Slight Chance of Ghost Owls (PDF)

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1/18/09: Who is that Masked Blackbird? (PDF)

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1/11/09: Fences (PDF)

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12/14/08: Why We Count Winter Birds (PDF)

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12/7/08: Ember in the Shadows (PDF)

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11/30/08: Bald Eagles Misunderstood by Franklin (PDF)

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11/23/08: Bald Eagle’s Rebound is Slow but Impressive

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11/16/08: Autumn Anxiety: Where Are My Birds?

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11/9/08: West Nile in US No Joke

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11/2/08: Horned Larks Love Highly Lonely

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10/19/08: It’s Feeder Time!

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10/12/08: Coming Soon!

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10/5/08: Murder in Bright Pink

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9/28/08: This Vireo is often Passed By

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9/21/08: Good Mornings in Fort Morgan

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9/13/08: Exotic Flamingo is a Sight to See!

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9/6/08: Hoist Your Umbrella When the Rain Crow Calls

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8/31/08: Redstart works semaphore wings

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8-24-08: The Chat is Summer’s Trickster! Photo by Jeremy Nicholson

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8-17-08: Just Another Pileated! (featuring photo by Jeremy Nicholson)

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8-10-08: Chasing Jabiru

photo by M.A. Seymour & J. T. Sylvest, Courtesy of Lousianna Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

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Jeremy Nicholson captured this small singer in mid-scale.

You Can Find a Prairie Among the Pines (July 12, 2008)

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Steve Ingraham digiscoped this beautiful Summer Tanager in St. Augustine.
Summer Tanagers, Poor Freds (July 5, 2008)

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Brown Pelicans (June 28, 2008)

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Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (June 21, 2008)

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Scan a Scoop of Skimmers (June 14, 2008)

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Least Terns Are as Tough as We Are (June 7, 2008)

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In the Cool of Summer Evenings (May 31, 2008)

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Magnificient Frigatebird Forcasts Storm (May 24, 2008)

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Barn Swallow Fledgling:

photo by LostinFog Creative Commons A-SA

May 17, 2008: Give Wild Babies a Chance to Grow

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Cary Willingham took this picture of the Mississippi Ghost in Amite county.
May 10, 2008: A River Run: Expertise & Ignorance

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This formally-dressed gentleman paid photographer Linda Nix a visit this spring.

May 4, 2008: A Gross of Rose-breasteds

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Danny Bales took this rare picture of a Swainson’s Warbler in its habitat.

April 26, 2008: A Rustling in the Leaves

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A Covey of Winning Birders: Shannon Knight, Madge Lidnsey, Pete Dunne, Gene Knight, and Nancy Madden. Photo by Sharon Milligan.

April 19, 2008: Let’s Make Our Visitors Welcome(PDF)

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Below you will find my Sun Herald series on Jinx Birds. You might want to start reading with March 29th’s Hooded Elegance and read up.

Jinx 3: The Elusive Black Rail (April 12, 2008)
William Burt’s Incredible Picture of an incredible bird.

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Eddie Callaway Caught this Groove-billed Ani in Texas.

Jinx 2: The Ones That Got Away (April 5, 2008)

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One former Jinx bird and one current one side by side
Hooded Warbler Photo by The Lilac-breasted Roller(detail)
Elegant Trogan Photo by Kent Nikkel

Jinx #1: Hooded Elegance (March 29, 2008)
Okay, this is not the title the paper gave it. They called this piece May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose. Okay, I admit that it has flair and I am a Little Jimmie Dickens fan, but I like my title better.

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Clydell Ladner found this Migrating Prothonotary fueling up at his feeder.

March 22: Swamp Gold

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March 15: Season of the Piebald Heron
(Sun Herald Title: Part of Bird Identification is Often Misidentification)

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Just Missed! Geoff Coe caught this juvenile Little Blue Heron still honing his fishing skill at Ding Darling NWR in Florida.

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March 8, 2008: Tundra Swans (PDF)

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March 1, 2008: Tragedy In Tunica
Gene Knight’s Picture of the young Light Morph male Rough-legged Hawk wintering in Tunica County. Follow the link above for the rest of the story.

I can’t explain the deep loss I felt and then such a
rush of anger. A wondrous creature lay wasted. — Jeff Wilson

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February 23, 2008: Saw-Whet Owl: Invasion of the Cute Beasties

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February 16, 2008: Peregrine: Return of The Wanderer

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February 9, 2008: Spring is Dressed in Yellow — Goldfinch Yellow! Male Goldfinch by Eddie Calloway: Creative Commons license A. Eddie’s photos can be found on Flickr.

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February 2, 2008: That Japanese Duck!

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January 26, 2008: High Noon on Church Savanna

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January 19, 2008: The Backyard Bird Count Needs You

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January 12, 2008: Winter Hummingbirds (PDF)

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January 5, 2008: I’m No Judy! (PDF)