This post is going to get kinda gross. You may not want to read it during a meal if you have a sensitive tummy. “Sigh, will I ever be that big?” Last week, I did my segment on Showcase Minnesota about the Monarch Ranching Class that I’m doing at Staring Lake Nature Center July 7. [ Read More ]
I think someone requested a western meadowlark from the North Dakota photos? Well, here’s an eastern meadowlark, I hope that works. I keep meaning to talk about the big Audubon press release about common birds on the decline (although, I have to ask how common has a boreal chickadee been to most of us) but [ Read More ]
Ah, the bees suit which has been such a comforting fortress of solitude has turned on me in 90 degree heat into a sweat factory. Lorraine and I went out to the beehives today to put up some skunk preventative. Near the area, we found some “leftover turkey”. There were several clumps of turkey feathers. [ Read More ]
Paul Baicich found a new way to use your Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation [Duck] Stamp while in North Dakota. Perhaps I’ll do this with my old stamp when the new one come out this month.
While in North Dakota, I had the good fortune to stay in a trailer converted into a cabin called the Bobolink on the property of Pipestem Creek. If you are planning a visit to North Dakota, I highly recommend staying here. The photos on their site show the cabin, it can sleep six if you [ Read More ]
This fluffy white cuteness comes to us from Deb Pflueger of Avon, Minnesota. It’s a recently fledged albino black-capped chickadee! If you look closely at the photo, you can almost see a hint of the lightest beige where the black cap and beard should be. It was in her yard on June 9, 2007 but [ Read More ]
I just found a photo blog for my neighborhood. If you want an idea of where I live and where I see some of the very birds you see in the blog, check this site out.
Don’t forget, there’s a FABULOUS new shirt available in the Birdchick Store. As Ian and Margery would say: “Kids in Carpool Alert”–parents who read the blog with kids may want to wait until reading alone to check it out. View the shirt here. I could not escape bees while in North Dakota–not that I really [ Read More ]
There appears to be a general lack of comments after the last entry. Non Birding Bill said the reasons was that all the birds were just brown, brown, brown, brown. After all the brown birds in the previous entry, I wanted to post some of the colorful things we saw. This red-winged blackbird was in [ Read More ]
