Posts Tagged ‘birds’

Photos: Wednesday

Adams Morgan, January 18

Photos: Pigeon English

An ongoing gallery of pigeon pictures.

Neighborhood News Roundup: High Powered Firearms Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
The Adams Morgan Bogeyman Succeeded: Unsurprisingly, ANC 2B voted against the liquor license application for a restaurant in the old post office building on 14th and T streets NW. Borderstan reports that a large mix of supporters and opponents [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: Tweeting Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Cleveland Park Problems: "We live in McLean Gardens and we are having such a difficult time with out 900 Mhz baby monitor. We get a sporadic, static popping noise that forces us to turn it off in the middle [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: That Is Not Cute Edition

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
For the Birds, III: Last week in Brookland, it was hummingbirds. This week, the neighborhood email list is chattering about robins—and, more specifically, how to kindly relocate them, without displacing them entirely. (Perhaps a metaphor for D.C.'s demographic growing [...]

Neighborhood News Roundup: Brown-Headed Cowbird Editon

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
For the Birds, II: Brookland is all about bird-watching these days. After a discussion over the weekend on what plants might best attract hummingbirds, a member of the neighborhood email list notes, "We have a bunch of brown headed [...]

Photos: Skywatch

Photos: Hello Bird People

What do we have here? Is it possible it is responsible for this from a few years ago?

Photo: Pigeon English

Columbia Road NW, October 7

Photo: Birds, Blue

Little River Turnpike, October 3

Photo: Season’s Greetings

Photos: Bird Fight

Winner after the jump

Economic Turmoil Has District Birds in a Tizzy

Has anyone else noticed that the birds in this city have been acting rather strangely of late?  In the last few weeks, wherever I happen to venture after work, the trees seem to shake wildly with flocks of excited birds. I'm talking about excessive chirping, wing-fluttering, branch-vibrating, leave-falling action, all of which contributes to a [...]