Birdchick

The latest Holiday Cute Animal Video sweeping the interwebs come from Breathing Spaces and their Do One Thing campaign. Pretty cool idea and something that should be started here.

Some interesting updates on blog entries this from this month: First regarding this week’s snowy owl. An interesting email came on the birding listservs from Linda Whyte regarding the owl being seen now and that there apparently was another snowy seen earlier in the winter: “For those interested, the owl currently being seen at the  [ Read More ]

One of my favorite things is to watch a really active feeding station. Even if it’s birds I’ve seen a bazillion times, I love watching bird feeder activity, especially in winter before we get a snow and birds are coming from all different directions. Tuesday had subzero temperatures and the start of snow fall and  [ Read More ]

I just have too many photos that I took Tuesday during what the local weathermen are calling “an inconvenient snow” (because it was only 2 inches that fell, but it hit during rush hour snarling traffic in the worst way). The first was the snowy owl and then I headed over to the Minnesota Valley  [ Read More ]

Since the weather has been below zero degrees Fahrenheit, many of the education birds at The Raptor Center need to sleep indoors at night. For the most part, the birds can sleep outside when it’s cold–bald eagles and red-tailed hawks live in Minnesota in the wild, so they can usually take it. However, some species  [ Read More ]

Last week at Birds and Beers, we talked about snowy owls that are usually seen at the Minneapolis/St Paul Airport in winter. None had been reported at the airport yet (they’ve been showing up all over elsewhere in Minnesota and in Wisconsin). I’ve been checking the airport a few times a week (I live nearby)  [ Read More ]

Across the pond, Bird Guides has been up to some really cool stuff. One is the first in a video series called “My Local Patch” series featuring different bird watchers and their favorite birding site (the outdoor kind, not the web): I also found a really interesting and disturbing video on their channel that’s up  [ Read More ]

The last Birds and Beers was a huge gathering. Some regulars and some new peeps came to join in the fun. We had a drawing from some prizes courtesy of Woodlink. We gave away a few of their “Happy Hour Hummingbird Feeders.” They’re nectar feeders in the shape of a daiquiri, margarita, and martini–how appropriate!  [ Read More ]

I was reading comments made by Mike McDowell about the Endangered Species Act changes this morning and noticed he linked to comments made by one of my favorite birding authors Scott Weidensaul. I followed the link to Scott’s blog–which I was aware of and the last time I spoke to him he wasn’t sure where  [ Read More ]

When Non Birding Bill and I do holiday cards, we usually take one of my photos and he doctors them up. I sent him a few and the above was one of our finalists. Just cracks me up the way the hat sits jauntily on the crest. I thought it was a good cleanse after  [ Read More ]