This guy was in front of me when I was walking home from the YWCA…I think he is having a rougher day than me. Knowing that we are going to get socked with another 8 – 14 inches of snow, I decided to make a break for it and went for an hour’s worth of [ Read More ]
Okay, I have to post this before I go to the list of errands. When I arrived at The Raptor Center yesterday for my shift an animal control officer was waiting to be helped. He picked up a long-eared owl outside of Manny’s Steak House in downtown Minneapolis. Not the best hunting for a long-earred [ Read More ]
Blog updates are slow at the moment. Just when we’ve dug out from last weekend’s snow, we’re getting more snow starting at noon today. I have to run some errands before it hits. I’ve had two big deadlines this week–Disapproving Rabbits is one. We discovered last night that some of the best photos submitted by [ Read More ]
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted for some quotes for this article in the Wall Street Journal Online about birders carrying more gadgets in the field. Alas, my comments were cut but still interesting nonetheless. I’m obviously way too glamorous now for the WSJ–okay, I swear these jokes will ease up…at some point.
I have been having such a great time watching the live video great horned owl cam I haven’t been paying much attention to the Valmont Owl Cam. Fortunately, Bill Schmoker has and he captured some interesting screen shots last week when one of the owls came back with a surprising prey item. I like how [ Read More ]
Minnesota weather forecasters have been predicting a big snow all week long, and they were correct. It basically it snowed all weekend long, most of it coming Saturday night. I took care to load up the feeder before the sun set thinking that our flying squirrel activity at night would keep the ledge fairly snow [ Read More ]
“I’d like to thank the academy and SonicWALL for this designation of Glamour/Society!” SonicWALL has sent me (and many readers) an announcement regarding a change of their original designation for this site: The request has been reviewed and rated as: “41.Glamour/Society” Glamour? Birdchick.com? How did they come up with that assessment? This even tops when [ Read More ]
For every movement, there is an anti movement.
This very nice email showed up in the comments section from the post regarding my site being categorized as pornography: As a SonicWALL employee, I apologize for the improper categorization of your site. We strive for accuracy, and your feedback helps us toward that goal. Your rating review requests should be processed within a few [ Read More ]
I had a meeting today to sort through directions for one of the Audubon guide books I’m helping with–tedious, hard to stay focused work but I tried to set the goal of a varied thrush. One had been reported near the Audubon Offices in St. Paul so I thought I would go look for it [ Read More ]
