Brace yourself for another brown bird bonanza. And if you watch Hong Kong movies, you get that reference in the subject line. So, thinking back to my bird watching experience on the prairie, I keep humming the Shirley Bassey version of Where Do I Begin?: Where do I begin? To tell the story of how [ Read More ]
Let The North Dakota Blog Updates Begin! I have so many updates, where do I begin? I think I’ll just be blogging all day long today and tomorrow. I must admit, the intense rain and cold winds on Thursday really put a damper (har har) on my excitement to go birding in North Dakota, but [ Read More ]
We digiscoped the crap out of our field trip today. Today’s birding was so awesome that it totally made up for the crap weather on Thursday. I have so many photos to sort through that the updates are going to be pretty darned cool! I’m currently listening to Bill Thompson talking about birding. He just [ Read More ]
While birding near Chase Lake in North Dakota, a white-tailed deer was running down the gravel road towards our group-completely oblivious to the group of birders watching it. It was trotting straight at us when it suddenly noticed the group with all the cameras–had an “Oh Crap!” moment and then ran away like a little [ Read More ]
Thank you Born Again Birder for spreading the good word! It’s so weird, I’m listening to the great Zickefoose talk about nature journaling while blogging. Today’s weather totally made up for yesterday. This bobolink in the glowing sun is just the tip of the iceberg…or prairie. It will take awhile to sort all my digiscoped [ Read More ]
Look! I found more bird mugs! The other side of this one also features a cardinal and a goldfinch. Oooooo, ahhhhhh. Well, the weather has been interesting so far in North Dakota–even more interesting than last year. Yeah, I don’t know exactly what this hat a local rancher was wearing is trying to say either, [ Read More ]
Yesterday they banded the peregrine falcon chicks at the Colonnade Building in Minneapolis. This week has been so insane–I just can’t seem to keep up with the schedule. I had a business meeting this week and the poor woman and I were trying to get our schedules to sync up, I finally asked, “Dawn, do [ Read More ]
A goal has been reached! I finally met Cute Overload’s stringent standards!! I sent a link of the porcupet nursing and it turned up on their site. They have been so kind and supportive of disapproving rabbits and just a great source of joy to my daily blog reading. I’ve submitted animals photos before but [ Read More ]
I stopped at Afton State Park yesterday to hang with sparrows. And boy did I come on some weird bird activities. Aaaarrrr, matey! The first weird find was a one eye clay-colored sparrow. On the one side of his face he looked totally normal, but the other side the who eye was gone and the [ Read More ]
I have a backlog of blog entries. I was going to do some catch up today but found out that I’m actually supposed to be in North Dakota Wednesday instead of Thursday. The downside is that means I have less time to get work done at home this week, but on the upside I have [ Read More ]
