I have been making so many changes this summer. Some have been evident with the blog and will be more evident in the coming weeks. Some have been in my day to day routine. For example, I’ve been learning how to band birds at Carpenter Nature Center and usually spend my Fridays (when I’m in [ Read More ]
Hey, this is pretty cool, the first video footage released of Kirtland’s warblers in Wisconsin! The video was put together by Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin. The Kirtland’s is endangered and was only found in a small area of Michigan’s jack pine forests, but about three years ago, a pair of Kirtland’s nested in an [ Read More ]
Remember that really cool pink katydid discovered in Ohio? Alas, she has died and those wacky Buckeyes did an autopsy…or should that be a necropsy? What do you call it when you do it on an insect? Anyway, they opened her up and made an interesting (albeit gross) discovery. Check it out here.
There’s been a new bird discovered and it’s the first bald headed bird to be discovered in Asia: According to the Associated Press: A “bald” bird discovered in Laos is Asia’s first new species of bulbul — a type of songbird — in more than 100 years, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said Thursday. Scientists [ Read More ]
I guess the beekeeping segment aired on MPR. Alas, Lorraine and I didn’t make it on to the audio, but we did make it into the cool video Tom Weber shot and is on their website (you might also recognize a certain pooch in that video too):
I’m having so much fun watching the young birds figure out the feeders. Above is a hairy woodpecker hatched this summer–distinctive because his red coloring is on the top of his head and not the back. The younger birds lack the finesse at the feeders you will see with an adult. This younger woodpecker made [ Read More ]
I was trying to get a video of this poor downy woodpecker trying to eat peacefully from the suet feeder, but ended up getting some interesting nuthatch footage instead. Watch the white-breasted nuthatch in the upper right corner. It goes through a series of displays to drive off the rose-breasted grosbeak. I was impressed:
We had the coolest birds fly over the hive today. As we were suiting up in the bee yard and stoking our smoker, I heard a familiar gurgling trumpet call–distant sandhill cranes. Lorriane and Hans were with me and I asked if they heard it too, they did and this time, they sounded a bit [ Read More ]
I’m testing out some video footage in the blog. This is a female red-bellied woodpecker going for a sunflower in nut mix in a copper mesh feeder. Note how she uses both her beak and her tongue to get the food out.
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