I started a part time job with the National Parks this week. I’ll be doing a lot of what I normally do, but for the parks service. I’ll mostly be at the Mississippi River Visitor’s Center at the Science Museum, so if you find yourself in St. Paul, stop in and say hello. This week [ Read More ]
Here’s a link to some cool photos and story on the rescue of an injured avocet. Oh, to be able to hold that shorebird in my hands!
It was another action packed day at Carpenter Nature Center. Despite the big seasonal movement and warm temperatures, we didn’t get huge amounts of birds. Above, some of the guys in the glass are playing with a spectrograph–there’s always something scientific going on. At first they were just looking through it, but then Paul (in [ Read More ]
I just got a copy of Falcon Fever by Tim Gallagher from Houghton Mifflin. Some of you may be familiar with Tim as an award winning nature photographer, or from when he was an editor for WildBird Magazine, or as the current editor of Living Bird Magazine, or as one of the guys who rediscovered [ Read More ]
This is the post that I was debating about: is it too much information? But Non Birding Bill said that is was gold…hm, interesting choice of words in hindsight. I was bebopping around in Mr. Neil’s woods on Sunday. I was in hot pursuit of a ruffed grouse and the report that a black-backed woodpecker [ Read More ]
On Sunday, we did our first big inspection with the Olga hive after having sealed her up for winter and my goodness was she active! With the sun and balmy forty something degree temperatures, we expected some activity, but they were buzzing around like crazy. I didn’t realize how much I missed them, missed the [ Read More ]
I woke up this morning hoping to dash out to look for a grouse drumming log. I put on a cup of coffee and was chit chatting with Non Birding Bill when I looked behind him and saw a male yellow-bellied sapsucker–I was so excited on a nearby pine! It was low and in great [ Read More ]
I meant to go tramp out in the woods and look for some grouse, but I have become a slave to a yellow-bellied sapsucker right outside the kitchen window. Will I ever get a shot of his face? However, I am enjoying the way his plumage blends in perfectly with the pine bark. Sapsuckers are [ Read More ]
Non Birding Bill went out with me today to Staring Lake Outdoor Center with Cinnamon. We were there for the open house and when we arrived, there were a ton of sparrows under the feeder. I tried to take a break here and there to get photos of fox sparrows, but the closest I came [ Read More ]
