Whoo Hoo, our earliest migrant is back in Minnesota, the horned lark! I actually took this photo on Monday in Connecticut but yesterday while toodling around Dakota County I flushed quite a few flocks along the road. I was trying to go see the gyrfalcon that has been hanging around south of the metro area. [ Read More ]
I might need a little reader support for a moment. I just got a notice from an alert reader that my site is being blocked by SonicWALL. Non Birding Bill did some investigating and discovered this: The site www.birdchick.com rated as Pornography?? Have I been talking about bird mating too much? We’ve put in a [ Read More ]
But has probably saved me loads of calories. Sigh. One of the joys of travel is being able to eat at chains I don’t have access to in Minnesota like Chick-fil-A and Dunkin Donuts. I grew up on Dunkin Donuts, I remember my mom’s friend Diana coming over on Friday nights with a big box [ Read More ]
Today was just go, go, go. I got back in from Connecticut late Monday night and had to be at the KARE 11 Studios this morning for my segment on Showcase Minnesota. When I signed in I saw that Jill Spiegel the Flirtologist had signed in before me. It’s a party in the green room [ Read More ]
Holy Mackerel, the post about the Colbert Report filming at the Connecticut Bald Eagle Festival has been getting lots of traffic. On Sunday when people found out that the crew had been there the day before, they were very disappointed that they missed it. I got an email from Caitlin who confirmed that the man [ Read More ]
In the interest of closure here are some follow ups to the Walda Cameron cardinal killing essay. First there is an article by Scott Shalaway in the Sunday Charleston Gazette on his thoughts on the article as well as a few quotes by Senior Newsweek Editor Nancy Cooper. This week Newsweek printed some letters regarding [ Read More ]
I think today goes into the top five of one of the weirdest-yet-oh-so-cool days of my life!Who recognizes this guy? C’mon, you know you know him and he’s married to that girl (just that girl, not that girl in the photo with him above, that’s just me, not that girl…that he’s married to–confusing enough?). I’ll [ Read More ]
Can’t seem to get away from Costa Rica at the moment! Tonight I met Alex Villegas from Costa Rica who has recorded the calls of 92 species of frogs in that country–and that’s not even all of them. Hawk Owl’s Nest has been documenting his recent adventures in Costa Rica. If you haven’t seen the [ Read More ]
Well, leave it to my good friend Carrol Henderson to find a disapproving bird! He went on his 22nd birding trip to Costa Rica and got this photo: I can’t decide between doing a caption contest or an id contest so I will do both! Here are the rules: There will be two separate prizes, [ Read More ]
Bart sent me this photo of a red-headed woodpecker at his feeder. He took this last week with a WingScapes Camera. He lives in Alabama and these are common feeder birds. My mom reports that when she went to Brown County State Park in Indiana that they saw more red-headed woodpecker than ever before (they [ Read More ]
