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Cathie Bird
Pioneer, TN
I'm a semi-retired psychoanalytic psychotherapist in eastern Tennessee.
Interests: psychoanalysis, liberation psychologies, social and environmental justice, civil and human rights, indigenous rights, earth and life sciences, personal and planetary transformation, nature photography, Qigong, jazz, blues, other life in this solar system (and beyond)
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Eastern Phoebe
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Eastern Phoebe, October 15, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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Cerulean Warbler
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Cerulean warbler, November 22, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Cerulean warbler, November 22, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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Field Sparrow
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Field sparrow, November 12, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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Winter Wren
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Winter wren, November 22, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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I guess tufted titmice eat bagworm moth caterpillars...
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I just recently started observing bagworm moth phenology at Nature's Notebook. I also observe the tufted titmouse. Today I got some photos of both that I did not expect: Photo: Cathie Bird on July 12, 2020 Photo by Cathie Bird on July 12, 2020 This titmouse (or maybe others) caught,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Sharing lavender with the birds and the bees
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I originally planted lavender for my use. The plant is several years old now, doing well, and making lots of flowers this season. I'm not the only critter in the holler who likes it. Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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A day of first things
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My first titmouse fledglings, first photo of a northern parula, and the holler's first great spangled fritillary of 2020. Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Some creatures great and small in the holler last week
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Yesterday as I was returning from my CSA veggie pick-up, I had to share the lane with a snapping turtle! I squeezed safely past her/him and drove on up to the house to drop off the produce and grab a camera. Approaching slowly and with caution, I got this photo: Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Crime War Zones
As the nation is gripped in the throes of large-scale protests and there are calls for justice in the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, as well as for an end to systemic racism and police brutality, this excerpt from Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the... Continue reading
Reblogged Jun 5, 2020 at Raising Cain...
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A big toad week in the holler
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Time to do a toad post! So often I see toads -- especially around my planters -- but don't have a camera. This week the sounds, sights and good fortune capturing images of toads all came together. Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Northern Cardinal (male and female)
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Northern Cardinal (Cardinális cardinális) - male - May 14, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Northern Cardinal (Cardinális cardinális) - female - May 14, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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A yellow-throated warbler came by for construction material today
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Looks like the holler will have a pair of yellow-throated warblers nesting again this year. Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male and female)
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheúcticus ludoviciánus) - male - May 14, 2020 [Photo: Cathie Bird] Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheúcticus ludoviciánus) - female - May 12, 2020 [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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A better year for Trillium in the holler
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Trillium species -- at my end of the holler, at least -- had fewer flowers last year. I observe two Trillium grandiflorum plants which both produced a flower in 2020. Trillium-2 came up first and had a bud by March 22nd: On the same day, I caught the emergence of... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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A Carolina wren visit today
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A Carolina wren spent several minutes checking for bugs in this planter, sat on a post above a bird feeder, then spent some time on feather maintenance...Great fun for me to watch on a gray, rainy, chilly day in the holler. Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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American Goldfinch (female)
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American goldfinch female sits on my rain gauge. May 12, 2020 [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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Male Indigo Bunting
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Indigo bunting (male) on May 12, 2020. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2020 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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A tweet-storm of different species
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I have some photos and stories about plants ready to compose but I face a major distraction: birds. Lots of birds. Different kinds of birds. Birds I've not seen here before. So first I'm going to do a post on what's flying, singing, eating and nesting in the holler this... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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What's new in the holler and for HollerPhenology
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Following my decision to "hole up" in the holler around March 2nd, I signed up for the online nature journaling and field sketching course at Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bird Academy, and made a discovery for future posts at HollerPhenology. Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Cutleaf toothwort is up in the holler!
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Cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) on February 27, 2020. Photo: Cathie Bird Yesterday I discovered a cutleaf toothwort, the first of the flowering plants I observe at Nature's Notebook to emerge this spring. Today's photo shows the initial leaves of a second plant behind the more prominent one. It came up... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Post-freeze leafy breakouts in the holler and lots of bird calls
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On my first holler-walk since the subfreezing temperatures of last week, I didn't need a coat and didn't take my camera. Of course, I found all kinds of things to report: Amur honeysuckle and multiflora rose have a few leaves as well as plenty of leaf buds. I also found... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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Seasonal shifts inside and out
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Screen shot of a Status of Spring page map at USA National Phenology Network A few days ago I saw four turkey hens feeding together in the field where at least one of them will probably raise some chicks in a few months. Overhead the same day, I heard calls... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2020 at HollerPhenology
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At year's end...
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A snapdragon survives the first hard frost. Photo: Cathie Bird, 11/16/19. An acorn germinates on the lane. Photo: Cathie Bird, 11/28/19. Scars on the apple tree. Photo: Cathie Bird, 12/25/19. Lichen, moss and leaves on the lane. Photo: Cathie Bird, 12/26/19. Remains of orange coneflower fruits. Photo: Cathie Bird. 12/26/19. Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2019 at The View From Frog Pond Holler
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A "better late than never" post from Spring 2019: flowers and breaking buds
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Flower, Dogtooth violet (Erythronium americanum) on April 3, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Flower bud, Dogtooth violet (Erythronium americanum) on March 27, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Dogtooth Violet-3 on April 6, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Breaking buds, Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra) on March 19, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird] Buckeye leaves on... Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2019 at HollerPhenology
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Last Leaves in the Holler
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Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) on November 28, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird] The Amur honeysuckle was the last plant on my Nature's Notebook observation list to lose all of it leaves this fall. The last ones came down sometime before December 2nd. White Heath Aster (Symphotricum ericoides) on November 16, 2019.... Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2019 at HollerPhenology
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