Fat is the order of the day with the birds and the cold weather. This hairy woodpecker was getting the suet while the gettin’ was good. Soup has been a popular menu item with the dip in temperature. I was so excited, I found a stewing hen at the grocery store (those are getting harder [ Read More ]
I got an email asking to promote a project with the Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis to address the precipitous decline of red-headed woodpeckers. The big project for 2008 is to identify and map all existing clusters of red-headed woodpeckers in Minnesota–a ‘cluster’ defined as two or more nesting pairs in relatively close proximity (say 1/4 [ Read More ]
It’s cold. Painfully cold. The type of cold that makes you utter a colorful four letter word with every step you take outdoors. I went to The Raptor Center for my shift today and got an update on Peregrine 568. She’s alive, feisty, and still in recovery. She has some bumblefoot issues but still, for [ Read More ]
Alas, the fear I had this past fall has been realized, the Kitty Hive has failed. The above photo is the last one I have of the hive alive. On January 1, I could hear some activity in the hive, but I have put my ear up to Kitty twice in the last two weeks [ Read More ]
There’s been a request to have the next Birds and Beers on February 28 at 6pm at Merlin’s Rest and so it shall be. I’ve also added a Google Calendar Feature to my Appearances Page so that way I can add in where and when I’m going to be instead of the usual process of [ Read More ]
Yes, I did just make that joke. It was hard to contain any Twin Cities resident indoors today. After sub zero temps, the weather really warmed up to the twenties and thirties over the weekend and today it got to the low to mid forties–whoot. And we need to gather our rosebuds while we may, [ Read More ]
I took this photo of Cinnamon during the interview last night. This is the stare down–she does this hoping that if she stares at me long enough, she will have willed me into giving her a treat. Well, last night’s online show (The Rabbit Show) took a weird turn. I guess when you have an [ Read More ]
Cinnamon and I are going to do an online talk show tonight at 9pm EASTERN TIME (as much as a rabbit can be on a talk show) on TalkShoe called The Rabbit Show. You can listen here and you can call in. If you miss it, you can get a podcast version too.
Okay, I’m more confused about the track I found than ever. Someone suggested elk, but didn’t think their were elk anywhere near where I was. Well, thanks to the great readers here, I’ve learned that there are in fact reintroduced elk less then 140 miles from the cabin and it wouldn’t be out of the [ Read More ]
