This is from the Seattle Times: Student lifts falcon egg, faces charges By Ashley Bach Seattle Times Eastside bureau Booth Haley speaks in exclamations and explains his yolk-related legal problems with a certain flair, including diatribes about living off the land and society’s reliance on store-bought food. The 22-year-old Haley is from Mercer Island, attended [ Read More ]
It will NOT be easy! I have had questions floating in my mind all day. Are the communities near the ivory-billed sighting prepared for the influx of birders? Is the area going to be restricted? Are there going to be companies offering ivory-bill tours? Of course many are saying right away the best thing is [ Read More ]
This showed up on BirdChat from Scott Weidensaul: I was going to wait until after noon today (when a press conferenceis going to be held in D.C. on the subject) to post anything aboutthis, but with the NPR broadcast following several days of emailchatter on the Web, I guess the cat is out of the [ Read More ]
Here’s a link to a report about the ivory-billed woodpecker and even has the 4 seconds of footage that confirm the sighting. You need Quicktime to view it.
Here is a link to a report by the discoverer of the ivory-bill.
I always thought that Cornell actaully knew where an ivory-billed woodpecker was but was keeping it under wraps. How many birders would come from not only the United States, but around the world to see this bird. Looks like I wasn’t just another conspiracy theorist after all, this is from NPR: Morning Edition, April 28, [ Read More ]
Today was one of the fun days to have my job. The bird store is sponsoring two feeding stations at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and I had to install them today. The arboretum is beautiful and while I was putting together feeders and screwing in brackets I was serenaded by ruby-crowned kinglets. I really enjoy [ Read More ]
Saturday I checked the house finch nest and found that there are five chicks. I think they hatched Thursday which is pretty amazing considering how chilly it’s been in Minnesota the last few days. It’s a testament to how hardy house finches are and demonstrates one of the many reasons they were able to spread [ Read More ]
There’s a new radio segment at Birdzilla Radio on my visit to Kearney, NE. I was really pleased with how well the bird calls came out when I recorded it.
Yes, folks, that hole in the wall of our strip mall is a chickadee nest box. I noticed a chickadee the other day with a bill full of nesting material but as long as I was watching the bird it wouldn’t go anywhere. Today, Denny said, “I know where there’s a chickadee nest!” I asked [ Read More ]
