Birdchick

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Thanks to my Google Calendar reminder, I need to tell everybody that this Thursday, March 20 is Birds and Beers at Merlin’s Rest at 6pm. Birds and Beers is a gathering of anyone interested in birds at any level from the hardcore lister to the mildly interested backyard birder. We just get together and talk  [ Read More ]

Mr. Neil has a few owl species on his property. There is a resident barred owl who occasionally duets with a second bird. This bird has been the cagiest of barred owls that I have ever encountered. Most of the time when I walk through the woods where it roosts, it takes off even if  [ Read More ]

Birds were moving through Mr. Neil’s yard today. As I was photographing this goldfinch, I could hear tons of birds moving through the woods. It sounded like hundreds of goldfinches and some waxwings and robins. I looked down towards the woods and I could see the bodies flitting through the trees. I went in to  [ Read More ]

Spent the day working my mojo with my new digital camera for digiscoping. I took this video through the scope of a female red-bellied woodpecker eating off of a suet log. It’s not the most exciting footage ever, but I really wanted to capture the background sounds–some birds were singing territory songs even with snow  [ Read More ]

This is the kind of story that makes Non Birding Bill shake his head at birders: From Science Daily: The announcement of the discovery of a new bird comes with a twist: It’s a white-eye, but its eye isn’t white. Still, what this new bird lacks in literal qualities it makes up for as one  [ Read More ]

Hey! If you need a sandhill crane and or waterfowl fix, the National Geographic Crane Cam live at Rowe Sanctuary is up and running. You’re probably asking yourself, “How much longer is this chick going to go on about Nebraska???” This will be the last post and then later this week I’ll be opening up  [ Read More ]

I’m having way too much fun with my phone. Non Birding Bill finally figured out how to get my phone to play some of my favorite bird calls as my ring tones. The other day I was talking to one of the vets in the clinic at The Raptor Center when I heard a bird  [ Read More ]

My goodness, the Holy Crap factor is majorly spiking this week! Thanks to Jennifer who alerted me to a link of photos that her mother took of a young red-tailed hawk that tried to get a snake and things went a bit wonky. Click here to view the photos. There are three photos of the  [ Read More ]

Oh, the places we took this bus on our field trip! Saturday in Nebraska we went to explore other birding areas. We drove by Funk Waterfowl Production Area which in the past few years hasn’t been all that great because the cattails had grown up and hidden the ducks. But the powers that be had  [ Read More ]