From WSBTV: A red-tailed hawk, apparently confused by a puppet shaped like a bird, swooped into a Midtown Atlanta parking lot Friday sending two workers ducking for cover.Jeff Domke and Alan Louis, employees at the Center for Puppetry Arts, were in the facility’s parking lot at 1404 Spring Street taking pictures of a puppet designed [ Read More ]
Thanks to Patti for sending this my way. Mr. Neil will often tell me things about birds that are…well…just plain wrong. I think it’s because he watched this series as a young man in England. Narrator kinda sounds like him:
We had a small but intrepid group at our Junior Ranger bird walk tonight. One of the cool parts was a junior ranger who showed up Bill Thompson’s book: The Young Birder’s Guide. She was workin’ it too. Checking the birds off as she found them, double checking the info. This is an awesome book: [ Read More ]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology has started the Celebrate Urban Birds website. They want to see your photo, drawing, or video of a Little Green Space that’s good for birds (remember the bald eagle nest that’s in a Minneapolis neighborhood across from the airport?). Have you noticed a spot that birds like because it provides shelter, [ Read More ]
Watch out, Buckeyes! I’m coming to Bellville, Ohio next month! On October 18, I’ll be giving a presentation on how to start your own nature blog for the Audubon Ohio State Assembly. It would be fun if we could work out a Birds and Beers there. Suggestions anyone? Non Birding Bill is coming to Ohio [ Read More ]
I got an email from Yvette’s Inner Geek asking for a bird ID. I looked at the photos on her blog and it took about ten seconds, but I figured out what it is. Can you figure out what she had in her chimney?
Hey, how about a head on hump day merlin? Anybody need any cleansing out there? This should work. Isn’t that a dynamite shot? It’s from my buddy Frank Taylor. It rained a ton at the blind last weekend, but they still got some cool birds in like this female merlin. I was not able to [ Read More ]
-Tired of cold weather, 4 hours of light, and watching the bird feeder? Do you like sun, good food and warm tropical oceans? We have the answer. Be a field assistant on research studying migratory (primarily American Redstarts) and resident birds in Jamaica. We are looking to save 5-7 people from winter depression. Project begins [ Read More ]
According to Slate: The bird-watching site, Birdpost, looked like the most promising new social networking site debuted at TechCrunch50, the Sundance of the Web start-up world. Birdpost’s target audience is less narrow than you may think: There are 18 million birders in America, and they spend $32 billion each year on their pursuit, according to [ Read More ]
From the BBC News: TV watchdog Ofcom has ruled that an episode of Channel 4 show The F Word featuring chef Gordon Ramsay eating a puffin did not break the rules. Ofcom received 42 complaints over the show which saw Ramsay “sky fishing” for puffins and eating its fresh heart. The regulator said the sequence [ Read More ]
