A little before 5pm today, Melissa called me to the back door and asked if I had my good binoculars (pish-sha, did I have my good binoculars–what kind of birdchick would I be without them?). There was a Cooper’s hawk that had just grabbed something from the feeder…and it was still alive. Melissa and I [ Read More ]
I got my first royalty check from Adventure Publications today. The really cool part is there’s a list of stores that have purchased the calendars and some of them have very weird names like Loonasota, Jabberwocky or Shaman Drum. Then, I see that completely unexpected places are carrying the bird calendars like City Drug or [ Read More ]
This time of year when many robins have fledged and the flocks lay low, usually someone starts and alarm that is something to the effect of “I’m not seeing robins, are they in trouble?” Several possible sinister explanations are tossed around and inevitably someone will say, “I see more crows and they eat robin’s eggs [ Read More ]
In my post about the Meadowlands Meeting I mentioned there was a “bloodworm” infestation. I got a couple of emails, including one from Mark Martell pointing out that trees don’t have blood. I was incorrect, it is budworm that infected the trees at the bog. My little brain must think bloodworm sounds better.
So, during the last blog entry I was absent-mindedly playing with my toes while typing and I felt something odd between my toes, I knew right away it was a tick and I FREAKED. You would think that someone in the birding industry would be able to handle ticks, but NO not me. I hate [ Read More ]
Well, it’s that time of year again when I get a phone question that goes something like this: “I think I have an escaped cage bird, or some rare bird. I’ve got a bird that is all red, almost as red as a cardinal (on a few occasions the bird will be brown). The bird [ Read More ]
Yesterday I walked out to the feeding station behind the bird store and flushed a Cooper’s hawk. The vegetation is fairly high so I crouched down. Sometimes you can get accipiters to come back by making squeaky signs. They are a bird that acts before thinking (like me, I think that’s why I accipiters so [ Read More ]
This shirt is now available at the Country Store in Meadowlands in Sax Zim Bog. All the sizes were too big for me, but I have started a tradition of giving all the bird shirts I would love to wear to Non Bird Bill. I gave it to him and he said, “I don’t know, [ Read More ]
This showed up on BirdChat. Can I say how much it makes me smile that birding is out there in the mainstream enough to warrant time on a tabloid tv show? Have you been denied access to a favorite birding spot because ofsecurity concerns? “Inside Edition” (TV show) wants to know aboutyour experience. Please contact [ Read More ]
From the post and timing you are probably thinking that I will write about the whole ivory-billed woodpecker validity controversy. Well, I’ve got something much better, someone has written a song about the ivory-bill. If you’re a fan of the soundtrack to The Last Unicorn or the animated version of The Hobbit then you will [ Read More ]
