All the photos in this entry are courtesy of my buddy, the digiscoping pro Clay Taylor. Well, I had timed my trip in Connecticut to have Monday free to do some birding, but a hard and windy downpour has put the damper on that plan (har har). Instead, I’m catching up on some work and [ Read More ]
Holy Crap! Some enterprising techno geeks out there have figured out how to get the National Geographic Handheld Birds on to other devices besides a Palm Pilot. This message from Jen Korn showed up on TexBirds: I posted a few months ago to see if anyone had found a way to put the Palm program [ Read More ]
This mallard looks about how I feel right now: exhausted and stuffed full of lobster.
You may have to click on the above photo to see a larger version and read the accompanying caption. Can you catch the mistake made in Saturday’s Hartford Courant? If you can’t read the caption, I’ll give you a hint: I’m at a Bald Eagle Festival… I did not get any photos of eagles today [ Read More ]
This female cardinal was hanging around in my buddy Clay Taylor’s backyard. She looks like a female, but seems to have a red beard. I checked Cornell’s Birds of North America and found this: “Mix of male and female plumage reported, with red on one side and gray-olive on the other (Laskey 1969); also albinistic [ Read More ]
I have arrived into Connecticut safe and sound. I spent part of the afternoon digiscoping in my friend Clay’s backyard. I was loving the forty degree temps and all the white-throated sparrows. For some reasons, they made me miss Cinnamon.
Thanks to the readers who gave me a heads up on the owl cams. When you can’t go birding and desperately need a bird fix, these online web cams are just the ticket: Valmont Great Horned Owl Cam Barn Owl Cam
I forgot about this photo. The last time we were at Mr. Neil’s, the mammals were out in full force. The cottontail rabbit in the above photo was kind of a bad apple. It chased the poor gray squirrel every time it came near. A few times, it charged the squirrel, even when it was [ Read More ]
Photo by DALE GERHARD For the last few years, I’ve been tired of the impending extinction news regarding the Red Knot and I love it when people send me items for the blog, but I do try to stray away from posting announcements of everything going wrong. I do like to post announcements about proactive [ Read More ]
My goodness today was busy! We had a lot going on at The Raptor Center: programs, inspections, moving birds around indoors because it’s too cold for them outside. This imprinted male kestrel was very fascinated with the doin’s a transpirin’ outside his crate. We were having a conversation about the morning’s activities and he was [ Read More ]
