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LIST of TOPICS for 2014

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Wood Ducks (male above left) frequently make use of
artifical nest boxes placed near ponds or streams.

(Photo from the 1-14 Jan 2014 installment of
"This Week at Hilton Pond.")

Listed below, by date, are nature topics covered in each installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 2014. Click on the date to go to a specific weekly account. You can also use the on-site Search Engine to locate a particular topic. (Also available at top of this page to right of the logo.)

Each installment includes a list of birds banded that week--usually with stunning color photos--as well as any notable recaptures of banded birds.

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January 2014

  • 01-14--#588--Wood Duck Nest Boxes: Attracting Our Most Colorful Piedmont Waterfowl
  • 15-21--#589--Confused And Confusing Winter Warblers? Not Really.
  • 22-31--#590--Creatures Of The Night: What A Trail Cam Reveals

February 2014

  • 01-15--#591--Winter Wonderland: 60,000 Bandings . . . And Counting
  • 16-28--#592--Hummingbirds In Honduras: Ruby-throats Or Not? (Part 1)

March 2014

  • 01-06--#593--Hummingbirds In Honduras: Ruby-throats Or Not? (Part2)
  • 07-16--#594--"High Waters" In Belize: Hummingbirds At Crooked Tree
  • 17-26--#595--Back From The Tropics: It's Another World
  • 27 Mar-21 Apr--#596--Early Hummingbirds Galore At Hilton Pond

April 2014

  • 22 Apr-5 May--#597--Nature In Spring: From Hilton Pond To New River (And Back)

May 2014

  • 6-31 May--#598--Caterpillar, Maggot, Larva, Or Grub

June 2014

  • 1-13 Jun--#599--Whoops-A-Daisy, Ups-A-Daisy
  • 14-30 Jun--#600--Installment #600: What Is The Piedmont?

July 2013

  • 1-15 Jul--#601--Hot Weather Harvest: A Roadside Cornucopia
  • 16-31 Jul--#602--Arthropod Architects

August 2014

  • 1-15 Aug--#603--The Truth About Hummingbirds
  • 16-31 Aug--#604--Late August Walkabout (2014)

September 2014

  • 1-12 Sep--#605--New York Roadside Redux
  • 13-22 Sep--#606--Requiem For The "Queen Of Hilton Pond"
  • 23-30 Sep--#607--Late September Birds: Not So Many As Before

October 2014

  • 1-31 Oct--#608--White Hummingbirds 2014: Albinos, Leucistos & Pieds

November 2014

  • 1-30 Nov--#609--Costa Rica East 2014: The Chayote Hellbanders

December 2014

  • 1-21 Dec--#610--White Hummingbirds 2014: Albinos, Leucistos & Pieds
  • 22-31 Dec--#611--2014 Bird Banding Results: Where ARE the Birds?



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