Migration was just getting hot and heavy in Cleveland, OH this past weekend. White-throated sparrows (above) covered the ground and we could hear some warblers overhead. Part of my festival duties were to lead a “Birdchick Walk” for families at Rocky Ridge Nature Center on Saturday and Sunday. You have to kind of pick your [ Read More ]
The Fabulous Lorraine has been keeping an eye on the hives while I was out of town and I am so grateful. We’re supposed to leave them alone to do their own thing for the first 7 – 10 days after installing them, but I was worried since we were having problems with the Olga [ Read More ]
Hey, if you’re hankerin’ for another contest, WildBird on the Fly has a bird call one going on and the prize is the very cool new book Songs of Insects. Now back to this wicked bad white hawk. This is one of the eduction birds for the Medina Raptor Center, they were giving programs at [ Read More ]
We’re currently in the lobby of our hotel waiting for our shuttle to the airport to get back to Minneapolis. We had a FABULOUS time in Cleveland, this was a well organized festival. It was so busy I didn’t have time to blog. I caught up with friends and made some new ones. While waiting [ Read More ]
Check out Brian Sullivan on CNN talking about eBird and Handheld Birds.
I am exhausted. The North Coast Nature Festival–wow, this is an action packed event and it’s all free! It’s a great event for people in the Cleveland area. There are bird walks, banding, workshops–and it’s not just birds. There are wildflower walks, pond study, photography workshops, live animals, everything. We did our tv segments early [ Read More ]
I just got this bummer of a report from Hellziggy about the young owl at Wood Lake: Sad news… Sometime Monday night the baby fell from the tree. They found him on the ground Tuesday morning and put him in a basket that they put up into the tree so predators wouldn’t get him. He [ Read More ]
And now, a cool titmouse shot: We are now in the lovely town of Cleveland, OH. We have to go to bed early tonight, someone from the North Coast Nature Festival is picking us up at 4:30 am for two tv segments on WKYC. We’re doing two, one at 5:15 am and one at 6:15 [ Read More ]
This morning I was sipping my coffee and watching the cars in the drive way. I was (and am) exhausted from the week. I was formulating my plan for the day when I noticed what looked like a female goldfinch flitting around my car. At first glance, it looked like she was fighting her reflection [ Read More ]
We went out to check on the hives today to make sure that the bees were feeding, had accepted the hive and open the hive entrances. The Kitty hive was in working order. You can see in the above photo that a cluster of bees is on the pollen patty and many more were under [ Read More ]
