Killer birds raid Cyclone Larry town From: By Ian Gerard Visitor … Jan Shang keeps a close watch on a visiting cassowary as she attends to chores. Picture: Eddie Safarik THEY have borne Cyclone Larry and weeks of torrential rain, but now the luckless residents of Innisfail face a new dilemma, a posse of hungry [ Read More ]
I had to share the above photo. I was giving a program at The Raptor Center yesterday and right before it started, the merlin I was going to use decided to take a bath. This photo is after it had dried a little bit, but at first she looked just awful, completely waterlogged. It’s hard [ Read More ]
The killdeer post from a few days ago inspired Karen Cramer: While waiting for him in the Jeep, from along the western edge of the parking lot I heard this commotion consisting of continuous and raucous “Kill-Deer”, “Kill-Deer” calls. After my Uncle returned with his steaming cup of caffeine, I had him drive toward the [ Read More ]
When I moved to Minnesota, I did not sign up for super hot summers. Okay, so summertime snow isn’t what I want either. The above photo isn’t really snow, it’s just from the cottonwood trees. This weekend it’s been in the upper 90s with high humidity so it feels like it’s well over 100–ugh. One [ Read More ]
Friday’s banding brought in some interesting birds. First, though can you identify this little bird? I will reveal the identity at the end of this post. Something that you can’t quite see in this photo is that the bird has a light yellow rump patch. This bird required all the guys to get out the [ Read More ]
Mr. Neil alerted me to this interesting story: The day Britain’s most notorious egg collector climbed his last tree Birder falls to his death from larch tree while checking out unusual nest Martin WainwrightSaturday May 27, 2006The Guardian Colin Watson’s prey was precious, rare and hidden in dangerous places. And on a windy afternoon this [ Read More ]
Yesterday while walking past a power substation, I noticed a killdeer on the other side of the fence staring at me.When a killdeer is very interested in you, that is a sign that she has something to hide. Most likely eggs or young. If she had just kept sitting and incubating, I probably would have [ Read More ]
If you aren’t seeing warblers like you would want, check out Mike’s Digiscoping Blog for some amazing vacation warbler shots he digiscoped and check out the Stokes Birding Blog for some fantastic photos–you can even see Lillian rockin’ her super camera setup–holy cow! Birdchick: You know, they say that cat Lillian is one bad mother… [ Read More ]
…have too much time on their hands. Image of alien face found in wounded bird’s stomach Bay City News Service Radiograph & photo by Marie Travers/IBRRC Image of bird X-ray An X-ray of the stomach of a wounded duck that died at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia contains the uncanny image of [ Read More ]
