Caught on camera: An eastern chipmunk does impressions of Alfred Hitchcock. It was mammal central under the feeders today. Appearances were put in by eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, a rabbit and our new resident woodchuck. Not that I don’t enjoy the occasional mammal I was more interested in what migration was bringing our way. Earlier [ Read More ]
I completely missed I and the Bird? Boy, my schedule is out of whack. Here is the current I and the Bird 7.
Mr. Neil’s book Anansi Boys has come out and from what Non Birding Bill has told me it is quite popular. I think it’s going to be on the NY Times Bestseller List next week. Yeah, go Neil! I have not read the tome in its entirety but I am very excited because we got [ Read More ]
This from www.cnn.com KIDNEY COVE, Falkland Islands (Reuters) — There’s a mating ritual going on in the minefield. Fortunately the would-be lovers are penguins, too light to detonate the deadly mines laid more than two decades ago during a war on the far-flung Falkland Islands. Thousands of penguins and other feathered and amphibious friends choose [ Read More ]
Here’s an exerpt from a story from the Daily News Record: MARYLAND – About a dozen animal control officers from the county gathered Monday night along Phillips Store Road in northern Rockingham County to disperse a murmuration of starlings that has settled there.The officers spent the evening, from 7 to 8:30, setting off a cannon [ Read More ]
I was sifting through some of my photos from the NovaBird Camera and I came across this dude. One of the fun parts of the camera is finding out what birds are visiting your feeders that you may not be aware of. The other fun part is that sometimes the birds move too fast for [ Read More ]
This morning Non Birding Bill and I went to Sunny Side Up for breakfast and as soon as we parked, I gasped and whispered “Goshawk.” There it was, larger than life painted on the side of a Uhaul parked on 27th Street. I pretended I was an unsuspecting pheasant and NBB snapped a photo. The [ Read More ]
THE MN ZOO EVENT Special presentation-Harpy Eagle: Spirit of the Ceiba Tree Date: Thursday, October 20, at 7:00 p.m. at the IMAX Theatre Enjoy an evening with cinematographer Neil Rettig and his amazing film featuring the harpy eagle from the rain forests of South America. When: Presentation by Neil at 7:00 with the film to [ Read More ]
I guess some groups have latched onto the movie March of the Penguins as an example of family values. I’ve just been skimming it not really wanting to bring attention to it but today Non Birding Bill pointed me to a blog by Jim Emerson with some disturbing news about the origional French version of [ Read More ]
A flock of Franklin’s gulls were flying around behind the store yesterday presumably eating insects. Denny quizzed Melissa and me on why these were Franklin’s gulls and not ring-bills or Bonaparte’s. The breakdown: Black spot behind the eye. Dark back, much darker than ring-billed. Heavy lumbering flight, not bouncy and fluid. I was thinking back [ Read More ]
