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RDG Winter Prep

October 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

When the leaves start falling, it is a signal for the RainyDayGarden crew to go into prep mode for Winter. We have to make sure we have plenty of bird seed, put away all the [...]

RDG’s 2014 Summery Summary

October 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Summer ended about a month ago. The weather was so pleasant this year in New England that we didn’t notice it the season changing until the autumnal colors started [...]

BirdCam Pro InTheWild

July 31, 2014 // 1 Comment

The BirdCam and BirdCam Pros from Wingscapes are weather-proof wildlife cameras/videocams. Both cameras have been set up in various sections of the RainyDayGarden for [...]

Urban Safari: Heron Hunting

May 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Urban safaris are something we started doing when we joined the Franklin Park Zoo a few years ago. Since then, we have had many “adventures,” some of them in [...]

Urban Safari : Snowy Eagle on Plum Island

January 10, 2014 // 1 Comment

Now  that a Bald Eagle in Boston is no longer news, how about seeing a Snowy Owls on Plum Island? A Snowy Owl sighting is somewhat more likely than glimpsing a Bald [...]

Bird Cottages Update

January 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

When we first hung the set of bird cottages out in the RainyDayGarden, a few readers had inquired whether we were concern regarding their ability to withstand the [...]

Urban Safari: Bald Eagle At Jamaica Pond

January 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

A Bald Eagle in Boston? The prospect seemed rather unlikely. After all, this is not Idaho. So when our intrepid copyeditor came back to the office after her morning walk [...]

BirdCam Pro FirstUse

October 4, 2013 // 0 Comments

We set up the new BirdCam Pros this week, invited our Blue Jay friends to stop by, and ran through some of the camera’s features to get a better feel for how they [...]
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