And now, Birdchick.com presents: SQUIRRELS ON ICE! I really don’t know where I’m going with that. But there were quite a few squirrels sliding across the ice at Hyland Lake Park Reserve today. Will there be a storm on Saturday? Since Wednesday, Twin Cities weather people have been warning about our first winter snow storm. [ Read More ]
Courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger: moar funny pictures
This morning, I drove Non Birding Bill into work (it was 6 degrees, I couldn’t let him stand at a bus stop). After I dropped him off, we took a two mile walk among all the skyways around Minneapolis. I kept half an eye out for zooming peregrines in downtown, but didn’t see any. On [ Read More ]
Gifts for birders. Gifts for bird watchers. Gifts for people interested in nature. Well, it’s that time of year when I round up interesting books and gift ideas for the bird person in your life. In the past, I have organized this into something along the lines of beginners, intermediate, hard-core, etc. But many of [ Read More ]
Here is my Mom’s following the bouncing Disapproving Rabbit (you might want your computer on mute so you don’t have to hear my big ole donkey laugh): You can also get a low down of the book signing at that we had at Big Hat Books in Indianapolis.
Holy Crap! Thanks to some alert readers who emailed me a reminder (can you tell by the entries so far that I’m cleaning out my email box?) that this Thursday, November 29 at 6pm is Birds and Beers at Merlin’s Rest! Anyone interested in birds is welcome to attend–from the hard core to the beginner [ Read More ]
Sigh. So, I haven’t been filling my feeders because of some mice that are trying to share our humble little one bedroom apartment. We’ve trapped them (I think there is one free roaming mouse left) but with the single digit temperatures this morning, I just had to fill the bird feeders. I wasn’t expecting much, [ Read More ]
We just got back into town last night. When we arrived in Minnesota, it was about 30 degrees. A very pleasant temperature to ease us into winter. This morning I woke up and the radio weather guy said that the high today was 21 degrees…the current temperature being 3 degrees with a windchill of -12 [ Read More ]
I keep trying to get photos of my mom’s Carolina wrens but they are not cooperating…she does have goldfinches that pose endlessly. So, while checking my bird news this morning, I came across an article about Geobirds. I had been kind of aware of it but haven’t checked it, but the article got my attention [ Read More ]
