While doing some online research for something, I came across an archived article from the New York Times dated September 20, 1896: A young South American bittern fell exhausted in the rear yard of 411 West Thirty-third Street yesterday. August and Willie Schramm, two boys who live at that number, caught the bird. It fought [ Read More ]
First, Birds and Beers will continue, I just haven’t scheduled January yet. I will get it squared away after the first of the year. I just needed to get the holidays out of the way. Second, a BIG THANK YOU to Metro Magazine for including my blog in their list of “The Best Homegrown Blogs [ Read More ]
Someone asked in the comments what the red-breasted nuthatch is eating in the feeder. This is a mesh feeder full of mixed nuts: peanuts, Brazil nuts, almonds, cashews, pistashios, and the odd filbert. Birds love this stuff. If you can mount your feeders in such a way that squirrels can’t get to them and you [ Read More ]
The chickadee flies up to the suet log and demands a share of the peanut butter suet. The downy woodpecker accepts and doesn’t fend off a rival for the fat. Must be having an off day. In the December 18, 2007 Home and Garden Section of the Star Tribune, Minnesota birder Jim Williams wrote an [ Read More ]
One of the great things about living in a state that gets a lot of snow is that your plans change. It’s not a big deal, it happens, you just have to make adjustments. Non Birding Bill got off work last Friday and we thought we would stop out at Mr. Neil’s on Saturday, head [ Read More ]
Well, our plans got a little derailed today as this puffed up blue jay in the snow hints at. We got some unexpected snow. Some of the snow was expected, but where exactly it fell and how much was not. We knew some snow was coming but there wasn’t supposed be too much falling where [ Read More ]
As if missing the northern shrike banding weren’t bad enough, my buddy Larry Sirvio has sent more photos of what I missed at Carpenter’s banding this morning! Hm. I don’t think that turkey is going to fit into that Potter Trap…and the next photo I think deserves a caption contest: Here is a first year [ Read More ]
My schedule has been nuts this December and I haven’t had a chance to go to Friday banding at Carpenter Nature Center. This morning I had to miss it because I had a tv segment. I just came home and am going through email when I found the report of what they got this morning: [ Read More ]
I had some errands to run yesterday. I needed to pick up some seed for Mr. Neil’s house and I needed some seed to take onto Showcase Minnesota with me. I went to Cardinal Corner in Newport and decided to take a quick trip over to Point Douglas Park to see if I could find [ Read More ]
This past June, I blogged about a pigeon fancier club that was trapping and killing native raptors to protect introduced pet birds aka roller pigeons. I thought it was interesting that the club’s official statement admitted the was illegal and didn’t condone it, but did feel that they were entitled to get rid of hawks [ Read More ]
