They are probably looking for the khaki-vest-and-tilley-hat-wearing-poindexter type, but here you go if you want to do some reality tv: ABC’s WIFE SWAP IS CASTING BIRDING FAMILIES FOR PRIMETIME! ABC’s prime time series “Wife Swap” is currently casting its fifth season and looking for unique families with plenty of personality to take part in the [ Read More ]
Warning! The photos in this post might be gross for some for some readers. It’s about a piece of bird (most likely a rail) that I found on a barb wire fence. One of the things that really surprised me about this year’s Potholes and Prairie Bird Festival was the amount of flooding that occurred [ Read More ]
And when I say “Rapping Birder” I don’t mean some sad white dude in a vest and Tilly hat making a funny rap song about cloacas, I mean this is music I would actually put on my iPod. I love this guy: he’s young, he loves birds and he’s using his favorite forms of art–rap [ Read More ]
I just returned from the Potholes and Prairie Bird Festival in North Dakota where I go to see some of my favorite songbirds like the above Baird’s sparrow. There was one particular Baird’s who did not get the memo on his life history. First, this bird had staked out territory on this tiny patch of [ Read More ]
We’re talking mass hysteria here. A photographer by the name of Steve Creek got some interesting photos of a female red-winged blackbird and a scissor-tailed flycatcher. The female red-winged blackbird is incubating the brood, tolerating the flycatcher, feeding the chicks…but then the flycatcher goes to feed the chicks! Now, I’m a lover and not a [ Read More ]
Okay, if you followed the link to last night’s photos and are trying to the horrific frog images out of your head, I have the antidote! Are you ready for this? It’s Puffin Cam! ’nuff said.
I’m currently in North Dakota at the Potholes and Prairie Bird Festival giving workshops and leading trips. Today was awesome, I did what I would call a slow and easy trip. It’s intent is to be a digiscoping workshop, give people a chance to try and take some photo of birds without feeling rushed like [ Read More ]
This year’s Minnesota Bioblitz is at my National Park (The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area) in the Crosby Farm Park area. The Bioblitz is a 24-hour survey where the public can help scientists find different plants and animals. The event is coordinated by the University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History, is free [ Read More ]
One of my favorite things to watch is gannets diving after fish, they can change their whole body into these little daggers, it’s incredible. There was a show on the BBC called Nature’s Great Events and one of the things they covered was The Great Tide, a feeding frenzy of predators going after sardines off [ Read More ]
This post maybe TMI for some people. Take note of the title and if that is not your favorite subject or something you don’t like imagine other people doing, I would recommend you stop reading and maybe check out this cool post by my buddy Amber about some gannet rescue she did while on vacation [ Read More ]
