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Songbird Prairie Bed & Breakfast
174 North 600 West
Valparaiso, Indiana
www.songbirdprairie.com
219-759-4274
The lovely Colonial country home with white-trimmed dormers may attract visitors, but it’s the grounds’ prairie grass, roses, and many trees that lure the namesake songbirds on their way to and from the Indiana Dunes. The four suites—Bluebird, Warbler, Purplefinch, and Cardinal (with bright red walls, of [...]
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Maryland State Bird – Baltimore Oriole
The Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) is the official Maryland bird (Chapter 54, Acts of 1947; Code State Government Article, sec. 13-302).
The female oriole’s feathers are brownish-olive and dull orange, but the male’s plumage is black and golden orange not unlike colors in the Calvert shield. This similarity led to [...]
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Steep Sand Dunes and Magnificent Lake Views
Experience these sights at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore:
Waves crashing on sandy beaches,
Karner Blue butterflies landing on wild lupines,
Sweaty draft horses working the Chellberg Farm fields,
Peaceful silence lingering along winter trails, and
Bank swallows flying from their nest inside the dunes.
Did You Know?
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has more than 1,135 native [...]
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How hummingbirds
chirp:
It’s all in the tail
Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 8, 2008
Christopher Clark went to Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley and got a bad case of poison oak. Then he tried a shoreline park in Albany, where his camera was stolen and sopping-wet dogs covered his field notes with muddy paw prints.
Those [...]
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Title: Delightful Details
By: Carla – 2008-04-02 15:27:33
From the moment my husband and I arrived we were warmly greeted at the front door by our host Barbara. Our time at Songbird Prairie Inn was enchanting. We stayed in the Bluebird Room, with [...]
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Here is what guests had to say…
“Peaceful Escape”
6/2/2008
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My husband and I spent our first night as husband and wife in the bluebird suite. We had such a wonderful relaxing time that we were not even that excited anymore to leave the next day on our honeymoon. The grounds are exceptional, the rooms so [...]
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Blogs have quotes from the Indiana Bird Watching by Bill Thompson, III and the staff of Bird Watchers digest I want to thank them for their work and beautiful pictures in the guide.
Here at Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast we enjoy watching and hearing the serenade of all the birds in the guide.
I will be [...]
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Drink your TEA sings the towhee throughout the brushy woodlands here in Valparaiso, Indiana at Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast. Formerly called the rufous sided towhee this 8 1/2 inch long sparrow is boldly patterned and spends nearly all it’s time on the ground scratching among the leaf litter, looking for food. The name towhee [...]
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“Beyond Our Expectations!”
Songbird Prairie Bed & Breakfast
BlueSkyBound
Indiana
May 29, 2008
My husband and I stayed 2 nights at Songbird Prairie for our 20th anniversary with the hope of having just a quiet time away from the hectic pace of life. What we experienced was so much more! Barbara and Efrain create a warm and [...]
