As Sharon madly prepares for her trip to Arkansas, I’m working on a painting set at Bayou de View. The painting here is an earlier one, and though I’ve painted more ivory-bills than any other North American bird, I haven’t done many good paintings of it. This is one that turned out about like I [ Read More ]
“Arrrrr, matey, let ye be warned that thar be a gross photo at the end of this here post. Arrrrrrr! If ye want to scroll down and get a quick peak, see if ye can identify what exactly is in the gross photo. Arrrrrrr! Meet Bud, the pirate eagle! Bud is not a pirate, he [ Read More ]
Here is a picture of my dog Chet Baker violating a Barbie doll. He is not as staid or disapproving as Cinnamon. I am delighted to be bringing dogness to Sharon’s blog. It is currently full of birds and rabbits. I hope she finds what she’s looking for in Arkansas. Until then I will keep [ Read More ]
Milk River Blog is trying to compile a list of obscure movies and is inviting bloggers everywhere to participate. Since Non Birding Bill and I frequently host Bad Movie Nights we have a whole list of movies that people have never heard of (or should have heard of for that matter). One obscure movie that [ Read More ]
I had Non Birding Bill help me set up a Gift Guide if you are looking for some ideas for the birder in your life. I just realized that I forgot to include a couple of items, one being a binocular harness–okay, I know, I know–friends of mine are reading this post and saying to [ Read More ]
I leave for the ivory-billed woodpecker Arkansas search a week from tomorrow so Non Birding Bill and I headed to a new Cabela’s that opened up in Rogers to load up on the supplies for the swamp. The photo on the left is me trying on some chest waders. I asked NBB how my butt [ Read More ]
I had intended to go look for one of the many snowy owls being reported around Minnesota today–someone reported one in Carver County just to the west of where we live on Thanksgiving Day. Alas, snow started at 5am this morning and was quite beautiful, however, that combined with people’s mad dash to get to [ Read More ]
“Uuuuurrrrrp! Oh, mom, why did I eat so much?”
Today is my favorite holiday, apart from hawk trapping. Non Birding Bill and I celebrate Naked Thanksgiving. It started when we first moved to Minnesota. Coming from a family of five sisters and two brothers I was used to a large gathering of family craziness and not a quiet holiday for two. When we moved [ Read More ]
I and the Bird 11 is up and running. It’s a great way to check out some other bird related blogs and gives the highlights of what’s been going on the last couple of weeks.
