Jim Williams asked Dr. James R Duncan what can be expected owl wise this winter and here is what he had to say: “Yes – our long-term winter data support what I call an “echo effect”, in which the only significant time series correlation in winter numbers of great gray owls from year to year [ Read More ]
Oh dear, I’m watching an episode of Family Guy and a bird has just made a nest in Peter’s beard. Turns out it’s a white-rumped swallow…however it’s animated to be just a brown bird and looks nothing like an actual white-rumped swallow. Not only that the swallow isn’t eating insects, it’s eating popcorn and when [ Read More ]
Warning! This post will start out about an update on the California condor at The Raptor Center and then will go into a kind of gross mouse story. There are no photos, but if you have a problem with dead stuff don’t go beyond the condor update. On a side note: can you id the [ Read More ]
While in Texas a Ross’s Goose was reported last weekend on Hiawatha Lake in Minneapolis. I didn’t pay much attention since I figured it would leave before I came home. A quick glance at the Minnesota birding listservs showed that it was still around. Non Birding Bill and I were heading out of town today [ Read More ]
The bunny disapproval is raging this morning. Non Birding Bill and I have sat down for breakfast and surfing the net (I just realized that instead of married couples using the newspaper to ignore each other at breakfast, we now use the internet–hm). Anyway, NBB came across Animal Reviews and I’m laughing so hard, I’m [ Read More ]
So a few days ago someone sent me a link to a guy in Florida who has seen an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Since it’s already making the round on blogs I wasn’t going to mention it but it got me thinking: who else is posting that they have seen Ivory-billed Woodpeckers? Here’s what I have googled [ Read More ]
Okay, finally the word on what happened people-wise at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. First of all, there were more kids at this festival than any I had seen before. These two guys were so cute, they came to get outfitted for a field trip. They selected Energy Binoculars, which fit well in kids [ Read More ]
Photos in this entry are courtesy of The Raptor Center. Note, the patagial tag and radio transmitter on the wing. All wild condors have that so scientists can monitor them in the wild. Nero, the TRC education Turkey Vulture (who was hatched the same year I was, 1974) was used in a early study on [ Read More ]
If you are interested in any of the heated bird baths that I talked about on KARE 11 today, I got them from the All Seasons Wild Bird Store in Wayzata. Call 952-473-4283 with questions or stop into any of their stores to see their selection. Rumor has it that they are going to be [ Read More ]
Yesterday 87 degrees, today sloppy drizzle that has just turned to snow. Wow. I’m not feeling sorry for myself, I love cold wet weather. Yeah snow! At left is a photo of a Great Kiskadee that coworker Ben Lizdas digiscoped with my camera and Kate’s Swarovski scope. The Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest was a [ Read More ]
