Birdchick

You can read or listen to the story here. Do check it out, there are some great shots of the birds!

Oh, the dangers of talking while digiscoping. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, when you digiscope, you get hundreds of not quite perfect photos. If you’re just trying it out and you feel that most of your photos are crap, don’t feel bad, it takes several tries and maybe even a little  [ Read More ]

I stopped at Richard Nature Center for a bit of digiscoping. When I arrived, the place was chock full of turkeys and like the flock at Minnesota Valley, they took turns fluttering up to the top of a feeding station to get at the seed in the flythru. A flock has been regularly seen at  [ Read More ]

One platform feeder. A squirrel is eating out of it and a turkey wants in on the deal. Who comes out victorious? A video with the answer will be up later.

Okay, so the deadline is creeping up in two days, but if you happen to have any cool photos of a National Park (and the wonders therein), you might want to enter it in the Share The Experience Photo Contest. The winner gets their photo on the National Park Annual Pass and various and other  [ Read More ]

After several days of butt chilling temperatures, we finally had some warm weather. It started on Christmas Day. Non Birding Bill and I noticed the temps were in the twenties and then stepped outside. It was so warm, we took a walk to Lake Calhoun. By Friday morning the temps were down right balmy in  [ Read More ]

Happy Holidays to all of you and I am truly grateful to everyone who stops by the blog and makes it a part of their day. Thank you, thank you, thank you. May you find peace, happiness, comfort with your family and friends.

There’s a really great review of the new iBird Explorer at Cloudy Days and Netbook Nights (done by my buddy Steve the Zeiss rep). The iBird is put out by the folks over at WhatBird.com. The interface on it is really, really cool and very intuitive to use. I wasn’t thrilled with all of the  [ Read More ]

I know temps were cold for this year’s count, but I really don’t know what all the fuss was about. I found my count quite easy and with a surprising variety bird species! Many of the usual suspects were found including white-breasted nuthatch and downy woodpecker… …and a red-bellied woodpecker working the thicker branches. There’s  [ Read More ]

Here is a clip from the upcoming Ghost Bird movie. It’s an interview with Mary Scott who is one of the first people who saw an ivory-billed woodpecker in the White River area of Arkansas. She also used to run BirdingAmerica.com which appears defunct. She’s infamous for incorporating non traditional methods in her search for  [ Read More ]