Birds and Beers is back! It will be held at Merlin’s Rest this Thursday, June 19 from 6pm – 8pm. Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities–if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. You can meet other birds–maybe a carpool buddy, talk about why people get weird on bird listservs, [ Read More ]
I had a wild weekend of park rangerin’. Saturday, I was bioblitzing (more on that coolness later) and Sunday…well, let’s just say it was off with a bang when Non Birding Bill was dropping me off and said, “Hey, isn’t that Darth Vader?” Yes, yes it was. The Science Museum has the Star Wars exhibit [ Read More ]
So, I’m catching up on emails and I found this really cool blog entry sent to my by my buddy Amber. Gretchen Stiches keeps a blog and relates a story of having to intervene with some tree trimmers who were misinformed about the legality of hawk nest removal and what to do with the chicks [ Read More ]
Because we all need a little indigo bunting from time to time.
Here’s an interesting turn for birds that I was reading in my latest issue of the Birding Community E-Bulletin: U.S. – CANADIAN PEACE BRIDGE PLAN SCRAPPED FOR THE BIRDS: A modern bridge-span between the U.S. and Canada, conceived by world-renowned bridge designer Christian Menn, has been scrapped to favor the birds. A Peace Bridge project [ Read More ]
From Reuters: Forget avocado, evening primrose oil or other exotic ingredients, the latest facial to hit New York is a mask made with bird excrement. The Geisha Facial, available at Shizuka New York for $180, about $100 more than the shop’s other facials, contains nightingale excrement. The Japanese powder, also known as uguisu no fun, [ Read More ]
The happiest press release in my inbox all week: “As part of a suite of wetlands acquisition and conservation grant approvals, the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission today approved $4 million to purchase more than 18,000 acres of prime prairie wetland and associated grassland habitat for the Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Minnesota – [ Read More ]
I’m not sure what’s going on, but my sharon at birdchick dot com email apparently isn’t working. The last email I got from that account came in at 9am June 11. It’s hosted through gmail and appears to be a problem on their end. For some odd reason birdchick at gmail dot com is working, [ Read More ]
This past Sunday was just about as perfect as a day can get for me. It started at 4:15am when Kate and I woke up to load up our van for the ride home at the end of the festival. At 5am, we met up with good friends Kim Risen and Bill of the Birds [ Read More ]
