Deb's Big Backyard

Legally blind freelance journalist & nature blogger @ Deb's Big Backyard on Facebook

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This is HUGE for Deb’s Big Backyard, “Our little engine that could”...not stopped by my long term vision loss. I am grateful that as a legally blind birder I AM!

Kevin J. McCarey, thank you. You are my soul mate and bird man.

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As I sit here and watch the Senate trial to impeach President Donald J. Trump, FB shows me this. Hmmmmm. Hahaha https://t.co/Fm3v51itoF

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Cardinals in snow. PRETTY!

Oak Park, IL, Backyard
1/17/20

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The indefatigable RGB. Yes!

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Snowbirds!

Oak Park, IL, Backyard
1/11-12/20

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In a political world where we live in constant uncertainty for the future, the simple distraction of watching urban birds-behaviors is peaceful.

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Columbus Park & The Magic Hedge... https://t.co/CdcqvbRvkv

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Kevin caught a Cardinal yawning. Hahaha. Wait for it.

Oak Park, IL, Backyard
12/8/19

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Thanks to Wendy Miller Townsend, Zach Carlton, Crystal Harris and Josh Mitton, our Third Eye Sensory Garden @ ICRE-Wood , my nine month labor of love as a Lead University of Illinois Chicago Master... https://t.co/PA7vLrKIqB

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Horned Grebe st Montrise Point. Fishing. Fun to watch it dive and score.

Montrose Point,Chicago
11/9/19

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Dark-eyed Juncos are cutie pies.

Oak Park, IL, Backyard
11/7/19

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Look up. Big Blue Herons in trees. Common. Fascinating.

Columbus Park, Chicago
11/6/19

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A budding activist at the Anti-Trump Protest in Chicago, 10/28/19.

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Marshaling at the Impeach Trump Protest NOW!

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A vid, courtesy “my old man, from today’s anti-Trump action in Chicago.

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I miss having the Honorable Barack Obama as my President. Rest In Peace, the Honorable Congressman Elijah Cummings. Yours was a life well spent in courage, service and dignity. https://t.co/2bkP9R98c8

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For me, and especially Kevin’s long lens, today hearing became seeing these two beauties when the noisy woodpeckers called out to a mate and peckity-peck-pecked!

Columbus Park (Chicago)
10/20/19... https://t.co/WIn6Ie4F1t

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Cooper’s Hawk. Hunting a squirrel. At Columbus Park, Chicago. Coulda been in your backyard. This one missed the kill, or did h/she?

Columbus Park (Chicago).
10/17/19

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In mid-October, it looks like the Third Eye Sensory Garden @ ICRE-Wood is getting a bit sleepy, so the Hort Crew I trained in early August is gradually putting it to bed! Way to go - AND GROW -... https://t.co/0G9S67J9YI

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We Third Eyers have proven that green and brown thumbing is a productive/peaceful/JOYFUL activity FOR FOLKS OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES. So, as Autumn settles in, garden on! The fourth season of... https://t.co/Hp7crU96BT

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Observing birds’ behavior in Chicago ‘s city-parks blows me away.

Columbus Park, Chicago, 10/10/19

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