This morning I went out start my car. As I headed back into my apartment building the sky was swirling with a large flock of pigeons and starlings. As they wheeled around the group focused in on a large adult female Cooper’s hawk, the flock of birds spun around her and I watched as she [ Read More ]
You can also visit Laura Erickson’s site (lauraerickson.com) where Chris Fagyal has made his own map with areas already dotted where great gray and northern hawk owls can be found. There is also information about seeing the unusual hummingbird that is still visiting her yard right now! http://lauraerickson.com/
This is not as fancy as some of my usual posts, but the folks at KARE 11 are kind enough to give me a few minutes on one of their computers to update my blog. If you are looking for the feeders that I showed as gifts, stop into any All Seasons Wild Bird Store [ Read More ]
I’ve been kind of bummed with the time change since now when we close the bird store at six it’s dark outside. Tonight I was cursing my idea of putting out 9 life sized penguins near the highway as advertisement as the dark settled in. As I picked up a large plastic penguin a shape [ Read More ]
Ron Refsnider had this interesting report on November 9th about an interesting situation that happened while they were banding songbirds at Springbrook Nature Center in Fridley. For some people this is going to be kind of morbid, but it’s one of those interesting things that happens at banding stations that really gets me excited: We [ Read More ]
Bud Anderson sent me this photo of a red-tailed hawk with a deformed bill found in San Jose, CA. Last month I posted a photo of a peregrine falcon with an overgrown bill that we got in at a hawk banding station in Duluth, MN. To all of us at the banding station, it looked [ Read More ]
Thank you to everyone who has responded that they have found owls up north! I’m so excited that people are getting a chance to view this spectacle. I’ve been so focused on owls I haven’t mentioned about a hummingbird that has shown up in Duluth as well. Laura Erickson who is the bird lady of [ Read More ]
I’ve received several requests for the map that I used to look for great gray owls and northern hawk owls. I printed out a map of Sax Zim Bog from the Iron Trail Website and then marked off all the spots that had been reported on the bird nets by Ben Yokel and Mike Hendrickson. [ Read More ]
A van load of women came down with northern owl flu , called in sick and took a day trip to Sax Zim Bog Tuesday–owls were EVERYWHERE! I printed out a map and starred all the intersections where owls had been reported since Thursday to use as a guide but really, we found many owls [ Read More ]
I crashed a comic book convention over the weekend, boy those people really know how to party. Ladies if you are ever looking to meet nerdy guys who can dance and party go to a science fiction/fantasy/comic book convention, those people are a good time. I do feel myself falling a bit under the weather [ Read More ]
