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Author: Neil A. Case

Spotlight The Great Outdoors 

FOREST THERAPY

August 4, 2017August 11, 2017 Neil A. Case
I’ve been receiving therapy since I was a young boy. Whenever Mother or Dad took me for a walk on a trail in the State Park, near our home town, I was receiving therapy. Walking along the river near our home, I was receiving therapy. Walking in the ... Read more
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IT’S BIRD NESTING TIME

July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 Neil A. Case
I was told recently of a pair of robins that built a nest on a home window sill, laid eggs, hatched a brood and are now feeding nestlings. I’ve seen young robins recently myself, black spots on their breasts, short tailed, fledglings, young out ... Read more
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SPRING ‘CRUISIN FOR BIRDS

May 26, 2017May 28, 2017 Neil A. Case
Call it cruisin’ for birds, driving slow or riding with someone driving slow, and looking for birds. It’s a frequent activity of many birders, particularly this time of year. It’s the time of year when birds that nest in an area but migrate south ... Read more
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SHOVELER, UNIQUE AMERICAN DUCK

April 28, 2017April 28, 2017 Neil A. Case
“We are fascinated by shovelers,” a reader wrote recently, “Maybe you could find an upcoming article regarding these unique ducks.” ... Read more
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SPRING MANIFESTS ITSELF

April 14, 2017April 13, 2017 Neil A. Case
Spring is here. It began by the calendar on the 20th of March, one of two days of the year when the position of sun and earth make the day and night of equal length all over the world. From that day until mid-summer each day will be a little longer, each ... Read more
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A TRAVELING FOX

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 Neil A. Case
A red fox went across our property earlier this month, before the warm weather came. There was snow on the ground, snow and ice covered our marsh. The fox came out of the woods across the road to the west, crossed a field of grass, the road in front ... Read more
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BIRDS, BEES, FLOWERS, TREES TELL SPRING IS HERE

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 Neil A. Case
There’s a robin on the lawn in front of my house, walking through the dry brown leaves of last year and the grass that’s a mix of winter yellow and brown and spring-time green. It’s a male, likely the robin I’ve heard singing from a tree in front of ... Read more
Squirrel in Tree
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BUY LOTS OF BIRD SEED

March 3, 2017March 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
I’ve been out-foxed by squirrels. I’ve tried to keep those bushy tailed bird feeder marauders off the bird feeder outside my study window and the feeder outside the dining room window. Squirrels have found a way to circumvent my efforts. ... Read more
Cardinal In The Rain
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BIRD OF THE SOUTH

February 17, 2017February 18, 2017 Neil A. Case
The cardinal is not a southern bird. But I think of it as one, as a bird with a similar distribution as the mockingbird. It was south to me when I was a boy. I lived in northern Iowa and cardinals were described as birds of the southern part of the state. ... Read more
MUTE SWAN
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THE MUTE SWAN – A LIVING LAND ORNAMENT

December 16, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
“There’s a swan in the run, Dad,” my daughter told me one morning as we were getting the horses in the barn. Our run is a lane for the horses, fenced, approximately twenty feet wide and leads from the end of our barn to a pasture, a second pasture. ... Read more
Fall Leaves at Waynedale Elementary
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LONG LIVE THE OAK TREES

November 18, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
After I retired my wife, our older daughter and I purchased a home in the country, 42 acres with a house and a barn, a large yard, two fenced pastured, a hay field and a pond. We also got a variety of trees. In the yard around the house were sugar and ... Read more
Hawk in Waynedale
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FALL IS HERE

October 21, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
The sky is clear and blue, this morning, an example of October’s bright blue weather. Today is a few minutes shorter than yesterday and tomorrow be a few minutes shorter than today. Tree leaves are changing from green to yellow and orange and ... Read more
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STOP FOR TURTLES

August 12, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
School bus drivers, oil and gas truck drivers stop for railroad crossings. I stop for turtles. I stop and when the road and traffic permits I get out, pick the turtle up, carry it across the road in the direction it was heading, then put it down, ... Read more
BIRD NEST
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SAVE THE BIRDS

July 29, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
One hundred years ago, in 1916, representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed the Migratory Bird Treaty. ... Read more
Robin Fledgling
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FLEDGLING ROBINS JUST OUT OF THE NEST – IT MUST BE SUMMERTIME!

July 1, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
I heard a robin chirping when I stepped outside one morning earlier this month. It was a young robin, a fledgling I thought, perhaps just out of the nest. ... Read more
Warbler
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MAY IS WARBLER TIME

May 6, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
May is the month to look for warblers in Indiana and in the other mid-latitude states of the U.S. May is the month when the warblers that nest in those states return after spending the winter farther south, many in South America, and May is the month ... Read more
Woodpecker
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MORE ON BIRDS AND CLIMATE

February 12, 2016February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
Recently I wrote an article which I titled, Birds and Climate Change. In that article I listed summer birds I’ve seen this winter. By summer birds I mean birds that normally migrate, birds that leave northern Indiana and go south for the winter. ... Read more
Robins
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THE MUSIC OF BIRDS

December 18, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
My sister found it in a used bookstore in Augusta, Georgia, bought it and gave it to me. It’s obviously very old. Its cover is dull and splotchy, the title, Field Book of Wild Birds, is faded and hard to read. It’s the size, the height and width, of ... Read more
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REDWINGS AT MY BIRDFEEDER

December 4, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
When did red-winged blackbirds become feeder birds? There were seven of them, all males, scoffing up seeds at my bird feeder this morning. There were more red-wings than any other bird. This didn’t just start this year. Red-winged blackbirds, ... Read more
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WATCHING FOR WINTER BIRDS

November 20, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
The leaves have fallen from the maple and oak trees in our yard and from the walnut tree out by the barn. Acorns and walnuts have fallen and are scattered among the fallen leaves. When I look out my study window I look across a road, then a field where ... Read more
Red winged blackbird flying - Photo by George "Dewey" Powell
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WELCOMING OCTOBER’S SIGNS OF FALL

October 23, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
October has come, October with its bright blue weather. ... Read more
Mourning Dove and Red Headed Woodpecker. Photo by George “Dewey” Powell
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BIRDS AS WINNERS AND LOSERS

October 9, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
The wild turkey, read in a recent magazine article, is a winner. A winner among birds was described in the article as a bird that has increased in number, or is increasing or both. The wild turkey has certainly done that. Once it was found in limited ... Read more
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THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS

July 17, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
A robin sang from a branch near the top of a maple tree in our yard, a house wren sang from a lower branch of another maple nearby. A song sparrow sang from an oak. It was early morning. The sun was up, just above the horizon and I stood on the back step ... Read more
Photo by George “Dewey” Powell
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SPARROWS AND A WEAVER FINCH

June 22, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
Sparrows have a bad name. Many people don’t like them. Ask why and people who dislike them say they’re just little brown and gray birds. They’re colorless. They’re noisy too, but they don’t sing. They just chirp. They’re messy. They make nests ... Read more
male northern cardinal Photo by George “Dewey” Powell
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IT’S SPRING

April 24, 2015February 4, 2017 Neil A. Case
Robins have returned after spending the winter farther south. I hear one or two singing from the trees in our yard when I step outside every morning, if it isn’t raining. I see one often on the lawn. Red-winged blackbirds are back and several ... Read more
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