I read the coolest article today from the journal Ontario Birds by the Ontario Field Ornithologists by Kristen Keyes and Michel Gooselin and learned that sometimes you can find something really cool buried in a drawer of old museum specimens! Keyes was doing some graduate research on short-eared owls when she came across a most [ Read More ]
Where are my bees? I take comfort in a singing western meadowlark, back lit by the setting sun.
I have to say, that I enjoy attending bird festivals and events in general (I must, I go to more in a year, than most birders will in a lifetime). But, I was really struck by the Lesser Prairie Chicken Festival in Woodward, OK. Because the festival wasn’t just about seeing the festival bird, but [ Read More ]
I am in such a holding pattern at the moment! One of the fun things about Facebook and Twitter is that I can see in status updates and tweets, but this spring, I realize how painfully slow migration seem when you live in the northern US. At first, I was excited to see robins, notice [ Read More ]
I’m going to be heading to Kazakhstan in a couple of weeks and similar to when I was in Guatemala, I’m not sure of what my Internet access situation will be. Since the last guest blogging contest was such a success (I got way more entries than I anticipated) I thought I would do it [ Read More ]
If it’s pouring down rain after 6pm–Birds and Beers will be canceled tonight. If it’s raining, I might go to the Fringe Speakeasy instead…if you’d like to still have the beer part and your interested in the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
When will my bees arrive?? They could be here any moment this week and the anticipation is killing me. Cornell just sent a Twitter note about an interesting observation at the Carolina wren nest cam. The video picked up one of the Carolina wren parents finding a dead nestling and trying to remove it from [ Read More ]
It was a busy day of banding brown birds at Carpenter Nature Center last Friday. Above is a female purple finch that flew into the nets. It was interesting to not the changing of the guard we had going on migration wise. Although, the first bird I banded was not a migrant, but a house [ Read More ]
Well, it was a mixed bag at last week’s Birds and Beers, but we had a first! Birds actually showed up to Birds and Beers! For those new to this site, Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities. Normally, we meet at a pub and talk some birds. This time, [ Read More ]
