I work part time as a ranger for the National Park Service at the Mississippi River Visitor Center. The visitor center is located in the lobby of the Science Museum in downtown St. Paul, but it’s right on the Mississippi River. Yesterday, I was working the closing shift and things were rather quiet. I was [ Read More ]
The American Bird Conservancy has released a 9 minute video on YouTube coming out against Trap, Neuter and Release programs for feral cat colonies. Watch out at a minute and forty seconds, there’s some really cool footage of three different warbler species bathing. I have to say that I am having trouble getting on board [ Read More ]
The Telegraph has a great photo and story of a pair of mistle thrushes. They built their nest on a drain pipe, right where the water goes down. When it rained, the position of the nest, prevented the water going down, and the gutter would flood. So, one parent took over feeding duties, while the [ Read More ]
Found this on YouTube. Some parents take their kids out to feed bread to geese, this guy takes his kids out to feed fish to bald eagles. It must have been taken in Alaska:
Below is one of my favorite shots from Kazakhstan. It makes me wish I could paint. I would love to spend an entire day lost in creating this shot of a brown bird, with a stunning sky blue and rust patch on his throat, surrounded by golden reeds: It’s a bluethroat, these are actually possible [ Read More ]
Holy cow, I just checked the updates for this fall’s Midwest Birding Symposium and those Ohio birders are pulling out all the stops. I think this is going to be the birding event of the year! I was already excited to go because Mike Bergin of 10,000 Birds and I were asked to come and [ Read More ]
On The Wing is a movie about the “famous” swifts that gather in Portland, OR in the fall. According to the website, each autumn, thousands of Vaux’s swifts gather to roost in a chimney of an elementary school in Portland. The thousands of swifts apparently attract a devoted following of thousands of watchers. The website [ Read More ]
Most of the time I was in Kazakhstan, I just kind of looked around with an overwhelming sense of gratitude and wondering, “How the heck did I get here?” I also had some strange birding moments. Take the above wood sandpiper (it looks very similar to the yellowlegs we see in the US). This should [ Read More ]
Hey all, sorry for the delay in announcing the winner, but the weekend kind of got away from me. The most popular entry in the Birdorable Guest Blogging Contest was… Dawn Frary! Thanks to Dawn and all our entrants, we’ll be sending your info on to Birdorable, and you should be receiving your prizes soon.
If you’re looking for links of what I talked about on KARE 11′s Showcase Minnesota today, here they are: Sign up for the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (a monumental project run by Bonnie Sample whom I’ve known from banding birds at Carpenter Nature Center) that needs volunteers and reports of birds breeding all over the [ Read More ]
