Non Birding Bill and I stopped at Midtown Global Market today. As we were locking up our bikes, I looked down and saw a honey bee flying between us and then land on some plantings. It’s weird, I can pick out a honey bee even in fight from the thousands of other hymenoptera species in [ Read More ]
Last night I was working at the Mississippi River Visitor Center at the Science Museum listening to the cool song stylin’s of the Brass Messengers (they were there for a wedding reception held at the museum) when I looked up from the counter and saw two people approaching me with Disapproving Rabbits shirts–the old school [ Read More ]
I love the stuff over at Birdorable. One of the owners emailed that Piping Plover Prosh and Cute inspired their latest design: Okay, they don’t just have thongs, they have a whole line of product for the piping plover. Hey, maybe we could pick our favorite endangered species thong from Birdorable and mail them in [ Read More ]
According to Science Daily: Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community. The newly found olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus) was named by the scientists for its distinctive olive back and rump. Adult birds measure 4.5 inches in length [ Read More ]
Don’t worry, this post isn’t all shorebirds. On a Friday I was watching these little semi-palmated plovers squabbling on a beach and then the very next day, I’m watching them on a mud flat in western Minnesota… And getting prickly pear cactus paddles stuck on my leg–owie. Yes, we do have a couple of cactus [ Read More ]
It’s another Skywatch Friday and I’m going to contribute some North Dakota storm clouds. I love the prairie–I love birding on the prairie, when the sun is out and it’s spring, nothing quite beats bird song on the prairie. However, when it’s rainy and windy, nothing can be quite as brutal as birding on the [ Read More ]
I was talking with Mr. Neil the other day about bee blogging. Periodically, I get emails from people asking “Hey, it’s been awhile since you blogged bees, can we get another post please?” Or something to that effect. But since I’ve started working on the bee book in earnest, I’ve lost the desire to blog [ Read More ]
Hey, on Monday at 3pm, I’ll be on Twin Cities Live talking about attracting birds to your yard and the City Birds/Country Birds book signing on August 23, 2008 at Cardinal Corner: August 23, 2008: Cardinal Corner in West St. Paul Store (651-455-6556) 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Cardinal Corner in Newport (651-459-3880) 1 p.m. [ Read More ]
ElizaBird sent me a link to something a little unnerving on Etsy: The description reads, “This man is on a spiritual quest, looking for that little baby bird deep within himself. 6 inches wide, 6 inches tall. If inches are not your thing, imagine the man head is about the size of a ken doll [ Read More ]
Check it out, Non Birding Bill and I are getting our groove on! And it appeared in the Social Datebook of Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine. They did a blurb about the Fringe Festival Closing Party at First Avenue. NBB volunteered his time helping out The Daily Fringe (the Fringe Festival Blog) but the caption for the [ Read More ]
