Birdchick

Then why does the American Birding Association sell white shirts with their logo on it? Lisa White from Houghton Mifflin has brought together many of our favorite bird writers and compiled their essays in Good Birders Don’t Wear White, a book on the subject of what makes a good birder. There’s some fun with some  [ Read More ]

From the Washington Post: A whooping crane found dead in a farmer’s field was a “senior citizen” with a colorful past that helped with studies of the rare birds, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman says. The whooper, found Wednesday in a field west of the city, near Almont, appeared to have a broken neck,  [ Read More ]

Ah, man, I was just sitting down to whip up this entry and I got a UPS delivery of some books. I already have a stack of cool books that I’ve come across in the last four weeks that I need to share on the blog and now another book arrived that looks oh so  [ Read More ]

We need to get Jeff Corwin in a harness…I mean a binocular harness. Looks like there is an interesting show on Animal Planet this weekend called Spring Watch USA, a four-week, as it happens, multi-media event. Filmed just prior to broadcast, this miniseries is a celebration of the arrival and beauty of spring across the  [ Read More ]

I keep forgetting to submit posts to I and the Bird and I have to send a big thank you to this week’s host, Jochen. He sent me some good reminders. I and the Bird is up and running at Bell Tower Birding Blog, so check out. I and the Bird is a blog carnival.  [ Read More ]

The Canada geese are all over the metro area. Whoo wee. I watched some geese stop traffic twice in two different areas today. Some local parks do a good job of discouraging public feeding and redoing the lake landscape to put a vegetation barrier between people with large sacks of bread and the geese. The  [ Read More ]

Hey, Bill of the Birds has a survey up on how many field guides you own, if you would care to participate. I’m surprised by the number of participants so far who own too many field guides to count–I thought I was the only one.

I thought I had blogged about this last year, but I can’t find it in my archives. In June of 2006, David and Sandy Dunkin were banding birds and got a warbler in the nets. They had never seen anything like this bird ever before. Theories were tossed about, but more importantly, two tail feathers  [ Read More ]

Nothing says spring like the Common Garter Snakes emerging! These guys were all over at Wood Lake Nature Center today. If I had more time, I would have gone to the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge and Bass Ponds where there’s a post that has hundreds of snakes emerging in spring. I’ve come across it twice  [ Read More ]