Non Birding Bill and I are going through our Holiday traditions. Yesterday we went to the Mall of America to watch all the men scramble last minute for gifts for mothers and wives. There weren’t as many men as in past years. I really do hate going to the MOA, but NBB loves it, and [ Read More ]
Check out this story from the Jackson Hole Daily: A female golden eagle captured as part of a research project in Buffalo Valley might weigh more than any other scientists have found in the United States. The bird, captured Nov. 13 by Beringia South researchers, weighed 18.5 pounds. Female golden eagles in America typically weigh [ Read More ]
How in the heck did I miss this online store for birder gifts? Today at Carpenter, someone had received this bumper sticker as a gift: Oh dear, some birders can’t play nice. This is from a website called Servopuff which caters to birders, scuba divers and “more”! It has a whole birding section and appeals [ Read More ]
Christmas has come early to the Stiteler household. Non Birding Bill just presented me with the Doctor Who Soundtrack. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Best Bill Ever. Now, the next time I go for a stakeout bird I can blast this in my car pretending I’m whirring along in my own [ Read More ]
This morning was not looking promising for a white Christmas. Weather forecasters had been clinging to signs of freezing rain for hopes of snow. But I was skeptical. This is the view outside our bedroom window. It was raining. I decided to go out and run some errands this morning and as I was doing [ Read More ]
I found this meme on HawkOwl’s Nest and have decided to give it a whirl. You just go to your monthly archives and post the first sentence of the first post of each month of 2006. January: When I was in Arkansas in December, the first thing I heard when I got out of the [ Read More ]
Every now and then I’m sent an incredible photo and a warning bell will go off. The last one was the photo of the black bear going after some bird feeders. The person who had sent me the photos had gotten if after a long line of forwarding. No one knew who originally sent the [ Read More ]
Those wacky Minnesotans are at it again! They’ve started a project on some of the Minnesota Highways with white ovals painted on the road to slow tailgaters by showing drivers how far apart to stay. According to the Star Tribune, the 7-foot dots are 225 feet apart, the distance needed at the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, [ Read More ]
Oh dear. Our weather forecasters are desperate for any sign of snow. Apparently we are setting a record for the latest point in December with a general lack of snow cover. All week the weather forecasts have been saying, “Folks, we still have a week to go, maybe a flurry on Friday.” Yesterday a rumor [ Read More ]
