Charmed Season 2 They 39;re Everywhere

[Jeana Rodia]

Youwouldn't think a robin-size, black-hooded, orange and white bird would be difficult to see, but they're very skulky. They are members of the sparrow family and spend lots of time on the ground under thick brush. They have long tails that show white flashes when they fly. Ornithologists theorize that long tails with strongly contrasting patterns help songbirds flush insects to eat.

Experiencing a bird in its breeding territory is different from seeing it pop up at your feeder or flit through the tops of the trees during migration. Eastern towhees breed in Montauk. You can go there this weekend, walk to Oyster Pond, and hear them calling and singing everywhere. I went there on May 1 and made a conservative count of 30.

The towhee shamelessly deploys its ringing and insistent song, stifling in its intensity. It's one of the easier birdsongs to put words to. Most hear "Drink Your Tea!" although I suppose drinkers might hear "Drink Whis-key!" The last syllable ends in a trill, which varies from bird to bird. It was a constant presence on my walk. Every 50 feet or so I would encounter another bird.

Towhees are with us year round, but during non-breeding season, you'll usually encounter only one or two together. Also, instead of singing their breeding song, you're more likely to hear their call note, which to my ear, sounds like a bright "Zreeet!" Apparently, back in the day when everyone was naming birds left and right, someone said it sounded like "towhee" and that stuck. Hence its name.

While the song surrounds you as you walk, you may never see the bird. It has an ability somehow to mask its location when it sings. It can drive you a bit crazy. I have heard a towhee singing from what absolutely must be the bush five feet in front of me only to finally spot it 20 yards away, 15 feet up a tree.

On the East End, we hate leaves on the ground, but towhees love them. They scratch about the understory, using their feet to push leaves around in search of some hidden insect meal. When you hear this scratching, some ancient part of you might warn that a mammal is about to dash out and attack your shin. You may stare at the base of a bush and tell your family to stand back. After many minutes of seeing nothing, you will wave your family forward. They will think you're insane, and that's okay. It's best to keep them guessing.

Towhees will come to feeders given the right habitat, but it's not a habitat generally supported by our local landscaping practices. They like overgrown tangles, impassable places, and a plush, wet carpet of decaying leaves. They even build their nests on the ground, right there in the leaves. It seems risky, but they're such masters of camouflage you probably won't find one. Your dog will, though, which is why it's thoughtful and kind to keep them leashed during breeding season.

Search the internet and you're not going to find a whole heck of a lot on the eastern towhee. They're elusive even there, which is why you should take advantage of Montauk and go hear them this weekend, before they quiet down again.

It's migration, and birds are everywhere. On April 30, Nancy Remkus "came nose to nose" with a hummingbird at her Sag Harbor feeder. It's a good idea to have hummingbird feeders up by mid-April, they show up earlier than you think. On May 6, Miachesca Gangemi reported the return of chimney swifts at Pierson High School. These birds are a definite sign that "the season" is upon us, as they can be heard through the summer patrolling the skies over Sag Harbor Village.

Also, in Sag Harbor, Myles Stokowski reported a solid flight of warblers at Mulvihill Preserve. He counted eight species the morning of May 6, including migrant magnolia, black-throated blue, and black-throated green warblers. Later the same day, at Georgica Cove Hollow, Steve Biasetti reported 16 least sandpiper feeding on the mudflats and a flyby Caspian tern. Anthony Collerton had three Baltimore orioles at his Northwest property on May 6. On May 8, Jill Musnicki had a pair of Eastern kingbirds in her Sag Harbor backyard. Tuesday morning, John Todaro, while enjoying his morning coffee at his house in Northwest Woods, listened to a Nashville warbler sing to him from a nearby rhododendron bush.

In my own backyard, I've been charmed by the arrival of gray catbirds and a large group of chipping sparrows, which have largely replaced the white-throated sparrows, which have now moved north to breed.

Everything is in flux. This Saturday is the eBird Global Big Day. Go to ebird.org for details about how to participate. It's free. Listen for bird songs that sound unfamiliar. The Merlin Bird ID app can help you identify them. As always, send bird sightings to [email protected]. Enjoy migration!

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Number of Discs: 6

Number of Episodes: 22

Video: Full Frame (1.33:1)

Audio: English - Stereo

Region 1

Release date: September 6, 2005

Episodes:

1. Witch Trial - A demon steals the book of shadows and reads the book backwards un-vanquishing 3 demons. Jeremy, The Shadow, and Nicholas return.

2. Morality Bites - One of most popular episodes. The girls travel to the future where they learn some surprising details.

3. The Painted World - Prue gets trapped into a painting.

4. The Devil's Music - Dishwalla's band manager has a deal with a demon, so the girls investigate.

5. She's A Man, Baby, A Man! - Prue turns into a man to attract the deadly succubus.

6. That Old Black Magic - The charmed ones must teach a teenager how to defeat a demon.

7. They're Everywhere - The sisters track down a group of warlocks called "collectors"

8. P3 H2O - The sisters find out the truth about their mom's death and find a new secret about her.

9. Ms. Hellfire - Prue poses as a hitwoman and also gains a new power.

10. Heartbreak City - The sisters meet Cupid and help him fidn a demon.

11. Reckless Abandon - Phoebe brings home a baby from the police station and the sisters must return him to his family.

12. Awakened - Piper falls illness to a deadly disease and needs help from a special someone.

13. Animal Pragmatism - Animals are turned human by some of Phoebe's classmates.

14. Pardon My Past - Phoebe has haunting dreams from her past life, so she visits it.

15. Give Me A Sign - Piper, deseperate to make a decision about Dan and Leo casts a spell.

16. Murphy's Luck - Prue is hired to photograph a woman but later has deadly consequences.

17. How To Make A Quilt Out Of Americans - a group of witches trys to regain their youth.

18. Chick Flick - Phoebe's favorite movie comes to life.

19. Ex Libris - Phoebe befriends a ghost who doesn't know she is dead.

20. Astral Monkey - A crazed doctor injects the girls' blood into three monkies-giving them their powers.

21. Apocalypse, Not - The girls must deal with the four horsemen of apocalypse.

22. Be Careful What You Witch For - The charmed one's encounter a genie but not everything is as it seems.

Charmed - The Complete Third Season (2000)

Starring: Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs Rating: DVD Features:

Region 1

Thinpak/Slipcase

6-Disc Set

Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

Dolby Digital Stereo - English

Dolby Digital Stereo - French

Release date: November 15, 2005. This season contains the following episodes:

1.) The Honeymoon's Over : It's a whole new beginning for the Halliwell sisters as we enter into the third season of Charmed. This season starts out when Daryll's life is put on the line by a demon called a Guardian. The sisters soon discover they must lie to a new ADA in town, Cole Turner, in order to keep their secrets as witches. Meanwhile, Prue and Phoebe get concerned after Piper returns with Leo after being gone for three months. 2) Magic Hour: After Leo gets the nerve to propose to Piper, she soon learns that it is forbidden by the elders and the only way for them to make it work is to get married within 24 hours before they found out. While Prue and Phoebe conflict over the situation, they encounter Christopher and Brooke, two lovers who are cursed with love by a warlock. Christopher is cursed to be an owl by day and Brooke to be a wolf at night. 3) Once Upon A Time: While Phoebe is out borrowing Prue's car, she finds a little girl named Kate who is being attacked by magical trolls because they want a princess fairy that she has kept within her grasp. While Prue and Phoebe formulate a plan to help Kate, Piper goes on strike against the Powers That Be until they bring Leo back to her and Cole tries to steal the Book of Shadows from the manor. 4) All Halliwell's Eve: As the Charmed Ones get ready for a Halloween party at P3, Grimlocks return from the dead and attack at the manor. During the battle, Piper, Prue, and Phoebe are thrown into a time vortex and are sent back to the 1600's leaving Daryll and Leo at the manor alone to fight the Grimlocks themselves. After the sisters land back in time they learn they were sent by a coven of good witches to help a woman keep her magical baby from becoming evil by a dark witch. 5) Sight Unseen: Prue becomes paranoid about the evil triad and becomes too cautious after she discovers that someone was sent back in time to help destroy the Halliwell family line forever. While Piper and Phoebe think it might be someone mortal from the help of Daryll, after the manor is broken into, Prue immediately thinks it's someone or something supernatural. Also, Piper feels that due to the fact she can't find alone time with Leo, it's because his bosses aren't allowing it. 6) Primrose Empath: After Prue is lead to a man who is being kicked out of his apartment who feels all the worlds pain, she try's to help him by reading a spell but it backfires and transfers his pain to her body. She then learns he is a demon named Vincerus and he sets out to find the one who cursed him. While Prue is inflicted with all the world's pain, Piper gets the feeling that she and Leo's relationship isn't the right one, and Phoebe falls in love with Cole. 7) Power Outage: The triad soon discovers Phoebe and Cole's love for each other, and he is soon sent to them. They remind him that he is only sent there to kill the Charmed Ones, and is forbidden to fall in love or he will be killed. Cole then decides to use the sister's arguments against each other with the help of a demon named Andras, but the conflict becomes so big that it breaks the Power of Three, leaving Prue, Piper, and Phoebe defenseless. 8) Sleuthing With The Enemy: After the Charmed Ones hurt Belthazor badly, he disappears suddenly leaving Phoebe wandering where he went. While Prue and Piper concoct a potion to kill his demonic form, they encounter Krell, a bounty hunter sent to kill Belthazor. The sisters use him to help track down Cole, while Phoebe tries to find more about Cole's human side and where he is. When she discovers his demon side, she learns she must vanquish him but at the last minute she realizes their true love for each other and she fakes his death, making her two sisters believe she killed him. 9) Coyote Piper: Piper has doubts of whether to go to her high school reunion or not due to how she was not popular in school. Meanwhile, a demon creates a woman named Terra who possesses people's bodies and eventually kills their soul. During Piper's reunion at P3, Terra enters her body, leaving Piper defenseless and Terra a new body. Prue and Phoebe have to find a way to get Terra out of Piper's body before their precious sister dies. 10) We All Scream For Ice Cream: When Prue and Phoebe are out to lunch and Prue gets a song stuck in her head, she tracks it down and soon discovers it's the song coming from inside an ice cream truck. Prue and Phoebe enter and are surprised to find a magical world with children who were trapped inside by the ice cream man. At the center of the world is something called the Nothing - which sucks in the children and anyone else who is in it's path. When Prue and Phoebe find a way to release the children, they soon find out that they are demons and the Halliwell's need their father, Victor, to aid them in vanquishing them. 11) Blinded By The Whitelighter: The Charmed Ones meet Natalie, a whitelighter friend of Leo's, who recently had one of her charges killed by a demon named Aimes. When Natalie arrives, she explains to the sisters about his power of deflection and warns them to take much caution. Of course they ignore her, and soon learn he is on his way to kill all witches and whitelighters in the world. Leo is then put on safety call with the elders which leaves Natalie in charge of the sisters. 12) Wrestling With Demons: The Charmed Ones use Daryll to help protect a man named Tom from training to become evil. Prue soon discovers Tom was someone she had dated in high school and sets out to save him. They soon discover a training method the demons use to help recruite them to become official demons, but before this takes place the human is forced to kill an innocent. Prue immediately wants to save Tom but Piper and Phoebe agree to vanquish him. Meanwhile, Phoebe tries to find a way to explain to her sisters about faking Cole's death. 13) Bride and Gloom: While Leo and Piper make their wedding plans, Prue goes out on a date and is set up by a priestess, Dantalian, who tries to get Prue and another demon to wed, with intent to make the Book of Shadows evil so she can steal it. While the priestess works to make the ceremony complete, it slowly turns the Book of Shadows evil as well as Piper and Phoebe. 14) The Good, The Bad and The Cursed: While visiting with her father Victor in a ghost town, Phoebe gets hit with a premonition and soon discovers she is linked physically and psychically with an old Indian boy named Beau. Once the sisters investigate more, they find out the town I is in a time loop and they are cursed to live the same day over and over again until someone goes back in time and makes a sheriff who is hurting Beau learn a lesson. Once Cole shows up to help Phoebe, they learn he and Prue must be the ones to go back in time. 15) Just Harried: While Piper and Leo try one final time to get married, the elders send the Halliwell's mother Patty, as a reward for all the pain that Piper and Leo were put through. Meanwhile, Prue's astral self decides to take over her body, which ruins Piper's ceremony and gets Prue charged with murder. Victor and Patty set out to help Piper overcome her doubt to get married to Leo, Phoebe helps Prue's astral self to become one with Prue again, and Leo and Cole find the real killer who framed Prue. 16) Death Takes A Halliwell: Prue discovers a woman stalking her while on the beach with Phoebe and tries to chase her down but doesn't find her. Meanwhile, Seekers are sent to kill Cole but they locate his old land lady and torture her to find out more about his human side. Prue soon finds out about the Angel of Death and doesn't understand the meaning of death, especially with innocents. In her attempt to fight off death, she must turn her back on an innocent while also trying to become at peace with her mother's death when she was a child. 17) Pre-Witched: A demon named Shadow visits each Halliwell sister on a different occasion and all three of them vanquish him, or so they think. They soon learn that he must be killed nine different times in order to become all powerful, so all three sisters must be cautious not to kill him. Meanwhile, Piper decides she wants more privacy with her and Leo, so she decides to move out of the manor and into their own apartment. 18) Sin Francisco: A demon with balls of sin releases them unto the Charmed Ones which infects all of them, including Leo, each with a different sin. Each energy ball stays within each person for a short amount of time until they self destruct. Prue gets pride, Phoebe gets lust, Piper gets gluttony, and Leo gets sloth. The demon sends the other energy balls to a priest and a cop who Phoebe tries to get with but once he is infected with the sin of anger, he goes to the manor and tries to kill the Charmed Ones. 19) The Demon Who Came In From The Cold: While out with Cole, Phoebe discovers that a demon murdered an innocent prophet and that demon was one of Cole's brothers. Cole then explains to Phoebe about the Brotherhood he is in with a group of demons picked by the Source. Cole decides the only way for them to destroy this and keep from killing more innocents is for Cole to go undercover as a demon returning to the Brotherhood. All goes well until Cole is put to the test by Vornac to kill an innocent to prove he is back to his demonic self which makes it look like the Charmed Ones are being double crossed. 20) Exit Strategy: Cole continues to stay undercover in the Brotherhood as Phoebe stays worried but Cole is then discovered and found out by Reynor, a top demon who is willing to help Cole get back to his demonic self again. In order for Cole to listen to him, Reynor holds his father's soul and puts a spell on Cole to turn into Belthazor and kill an innocent witch. Also, Piper discovers she has a new power but it malfunctions and she begins to blow up anything in site. 21) Look Who's Barking: The Charmed Ones discover a Banshee demon, who feeds on a persons pain and sorrows by letting out a blood clotting scream to their victims, is on the loose and when Phoebe gets a premonition of an innocent being killed, she immediately thinks Cole did it. They soon find out that he was not responsible for it. When the Charmed Ones find a spell to help save innocents from the Banshee's, Prue is turned into a dog, the only animal able to track them down. Prue goes after a Banshee demon, meanwhile Phoebe gets turned into a Banshee herself, leaving Piper and Leo find Prue when they soon discover that Cole is the only key to turning Phoebe back to her normal self. 22) All Hell Breaks Loose: While helping an innocent doctor from being killed, the sisters hide him at the manor away from Shax the demon who is after him. While Prue and Piper try to locate him once again, Phoebe goes to the Underworld to convince Cole that their love still exists. In their attempt to vanquish the demon, they are filmed and are soon exposed as witches on live television. While trying to fight off camera's and still save their innocent, Piper is shot and Prue rushes her to the hospital. Soon, the sisters find out the only way to turn back time is to make a deal with the dark side so that Phoebe will have to stay in the Underworld forever but in their attempt they lose their oldest sister Prue in the battle, leaving you at a cliffhanger end of the season finale.

This was Shannen Doherty's Final Season.

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