So, it must be the last minute Christmas crunch, tempers appear to be flaring. I’m on some different listservs and all I’m gonna say is that some people are wearing some cranky pants. So, I was trying to find something cleansing, remember the cleansing nuthatch? I was looking over photos that I haven’t posted and [ Read More ]
So, we went to see a preview of Sweeney Todd last night, which was fun–perhaps not the feel good Christmas movie one might expect to see this time of year, but a great movie. This is not a musical for kids or the squeamish! It is a rated R, bloody movie but if you’re familiar [ Read More ]
The Rebirth of the Eagle PowerPoint is the latest “wondrous” bird thing hitting email inboxes. Not since the movie Caracara have I been so blown away with such blatant lies being made about an animal’s natural history. The Caracara movie was where the lead actress was a falconer who had a rare bird to hunt [ Read More ]
Holy Cow! I am working on a blog entry for the latest piece of inaccurate bird crap floating on the Internet and wow, just wow, wait til you see it–if you haven’t seen it already. Wow… In the meantime, while I was at The Raptor Center today, some our education great horned owls were hooting [ Read More ]
What a weekend of gifts! The snowy owl was pretty awesome, that was such an exotic bird to me when I looked at it in field guides as a kid. And I got to drive underneath one on Saturday evening! Also, artist Marcy Hall sent us a HUGE vibrant portrait of Cinnamon (above). She’s selling [ Read More ]
I helped out with the Eagan Christmas Bird Count today. Most of the trails were fairly well groomed, but the temps in the Twin Cities started out at -5. But it was at least 20 degrees by the end of the day. Actually, Linda the woman in the above photo had us hiking pretty hard [ Read More ]
Here are links: page one and page two to an article in People Magazine about Jim Stevenson and the feral cat killing case in Galveston, Texas. Here is also a link to a very in depth article about his case from the New York Times.
Last week when we last checked in on the Injured Peregrine Falcon 568, she was a tad jumpy and we weren’t able to peek in. Two of The Raptor Center Vets, Lori Arent (that’s actually Lori on the home page of the TRC website) and Jane Goggin emailed over some photos when they did a [ Read More ]
Thank you to do Stacy Kagiwada for getting this awesome photo of Cinnamon! This is from the Indianapolis book signing, you can see more here–wow, Stacy has really nailed how to get a disapproval out of my bunny. I just love this one below–Cinnamon’s totally disapproving of me in the background. Stacy also got a [ Read More ]
I was barely home yesterday. I had my shift at The Raptor Center, then a dental appointment, I was in dire need of new snow boots and had to pick those up and then it was back to TRC for a Holiday Party–I barely had time to check email. But everywhere I went, people kept [ Read More ]
