THE EPICUREAN CLASSIC Migrates to Southwest Michigan After five successful years in northwest Michigan’s Traverse City, the annual Epicurean Classic, a Celebration of Food & Wine Artisanship, is migrating south– to St. Joseph–where, from August 28 to 30 some of the country’s finest chefs, cheese, wine and beer experts, culinary authors and practitioners will join [...]
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Epicurean Classic-Stay at Songbird
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August Dog Days at Indiana Dunes then stay at Songbird Prairie Bed & Breakfast
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Indiana Dunes is now on Facebook and has it’s many activities planned for August. Become a fan at www.facebook.com/indunes to join the over 2,500 current fans and stay abreast of all the happenings going on for the rest of the summer.
Dog Day Greetings from the Dunes! Awaken your spirits and fill your lungs with fresh air in [...]
My Favorite Songbirds Singing at Songbird Prairie
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En route, I listened to some of my favorite songbirds singing passionately to attract mates. Scarlet tanagers belting out their rough, two-syllable “chip-burr” notes, and rose-breasted grosbeaks singing sweetly like robins that had taken voice lessons. Black-throated green warblers sang a melodious five-syllable phrase that Beethoven would have copied, had he ever had the fortune [...]
Where do hummingbirds winter?
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Where do hummingbirds winter?
Jim Williams, Special to the Star Tribune
Ruby-throated hummingbird, juvenile male, at geranium flower
As ruby-throated hummingbirds are returning to the state, researchers are learning more about where they spend the other half of the year.
By VAL CUNNINGHAM, Contributing Writer
Last update: April 21, 2009 – 12:53 PM
Around the first of May each year, [...]
The Review Lady visits Songbird Prairie
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast: Valparaiso, Indiana
Last month I decided to break up a Wisconsin-to-Kentucky drive by staying at Songbird Prairie in [...]
The Review Lady stays at Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast
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Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast: Valparaiso, Indiana
Last month I decided to break up a Wisconsin-to-Kentucky drive by staying at Songbird Prairie in Valparaiso, Indiana for one night. It is only 10-12 minutes off I-65 and [...]
Birdlife: Spring hummingbird happenings at Songbird Prairie in Valparaiso
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Birdlife: Spring hummingbird happenings
By Marcia Davis
Sunday, March 29, 2009
If you’re an April fool for hummingbirds, it’s easy to remember April 1 as a humdinger of a day – the day to hang the hummingbird feeders every year.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds keep to their schedules. Spring’s first migrant hummers usually arrive in East Tennessee in early April. Be [...]
Buy Cheap Aspects Hummingbird Hummzinger Ultra Feeder (4 feeding ports – 12-oz feeder – 10” diameter) Also available at Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast
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To view the set of photos documenting this Hummingbird family click here
Here at Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast, we use these feeders as well as glass tubular feeders made from the coppersmiths at Holland Hill. Bed and Breakfasts, Indiana is what to google to find the award winning Songbird Prairie, or www.songbirdprairie.com 877-766-4273
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Report:U.S.bird species declining see songbirds at Songbird Prairie Bed and Breakfast
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Report: U.S. bird species declining
Last update: 9:30 p.m. EDT March 19, 2009
WASHINGTON, Mar 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — From Atlantic beaches to Midwestern prairies and Hawaiian forests, one-third of the 800 U.S. bird species are in danger, a report released Thursday said.
“The U.S. State of the Birds” is based on data from three bird [...]
Robins not necessarily signs of spring at Songbird Prairie
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Robins not necessarily
signs of spring
Updated: Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009, 2:25 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009, 2:25 PM CDT
By CHAD DALLY, The Daily Press, Ashland
ASHLAND (AP) – Much like Punxsutawney Phil and his fellow groundhogs, sightings of the American robin are considered by many to be a sign that spring either is here or [...]
