Today I headed over to Big Willow park for some light birding. This is a good spot for owls in the Twin Cities in the winter. It’s a fairly reliable spot for great-horned owls, long-eared owls and saw-whet owls, especially in winter. I was kind of bummed to see that some of the trails are [ Read More ]
Cinnamon would say “Happy Halloween” if she didn’t disapprove of it. Did you ever start a project you thought would take an hour maybe two and then took over the ENTIRE weekend? Thanks to the new job at Eagle Optics I have some fun stuff to travel around with–I thought I was popular before, but [ Read More ]
So in the process of transitioning jobs I haven’t had a chance to play with a new software called birdPod. If you have an iPod and the Stokes CD set you can download this software to organize the CD set in iTunes and your iPod. When I first started loading all of my bird CDs [ Read More ]
It’s time of the best bird blogging carnival ever I and the Bird is up and running at Living the Scientific Life. My personal favorite submission this time round is Speaking of Birds Blogs’ universal laws of birding.
Mark Alt, president of the MOU sent a link to some very cool photos of a peregrine falcon trying to steal a fish from an osprey. Interesting, you can see that the falcon is banded in some of the photos. It reminded me of a story Bud Tordoff told me about a male peregrine falcon [ Read More ]
Tonight I headed over to Lake Calhoun to watch the ring-billed and herring gulls come in to roost for the evening. There were few rafts of coots lurking near the shore (pictured left). I had my spotting scope and a video camera to film the birds and after about 20 minutes a woman came up [ Read More ]
Do you keep track of the number of a particular bird species in your home state? Along the lines of “On October 26, 2006 I saw 1,840 ring-billed gulls on Lake Calhoun in Hennepin County.” I’m in need of high counts of birds for the following states for any time of year or any year: [ Read More ]
Just got this from Casey Tucker, Education Specialist, Audubon At Home.
So, I’m doing some research on a writing project today and came across some photos of songbird banding at Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Ohio. I’m quite envious of the person holding the male scarlet tanager–how red does a bird need to be? The bird is so red that it looks like the hand holding [ Read More ]
This just in from Kim Eckert: I recently received a couple of reports of northern owls from 2 northern Minnesota locations: – Dee Kuder of Crane Lake observed a Great Gray Owl back on 12 October in N St Louis Co, along Minn Hwy 73 near the jct of Co Rd 22 and the town [ Read More ]
