Jan Dunlap who wrote the Boreal Owl Murder has a second book coming out in the Bob White mystery series called Murder On Warbler Weekend. Turns out that there is a book release party at Once Upon A Crime book store on Lyndale Avenue South and 26th Street in Minneapolis at 7pm on September 10. [ Read More ]
As signs of fall migration make themselves achingly apparent, many of the goldfinches in my area are still holding on strong to breeding plumage. As I was digiscoping this male yesterday, I noticed differences in the bird calls around me. No indigo bunting singing on territory or red-eyed vireo–that was first this month. There were [ Read More ]
Look at all the little white bee necks! Cute! I love it when you see bees craning their heads. Lorraine and I checked the hives on Wednesday and most is going very well. The yellow Hannah hive and the green Wendy hive are still working their honey supers. We removed the bell jar from the [ Read More ]
For some reason this black-capped chickadee kept flying down to the hummingbird feeder today. I don’t think it was after the nectar. Unusual visitors like house finches, verdins, woodpeckers and even fruit bats are known to partake of the nectar, but I think this chickadee was going for either the water in the ant moat [ Read More ]
Again, when I said I was going to Las Vegas to see birds, many thought I was a bit crazy. A few thought that I would just see the birds at the casinos like the flamingos above who reside at…The Flamingo. There were also hooded mergansers, shovelers, pochards (which I’ve actually seen in their native [ Read More ]
It’s illegal to keep a native North American owl as a pet in the United States…but not across the pond. Birds of prey do not make good pets. You can use some birds of prey with the proper licensing as a hunting partner for falconry, but that type of bird always stays wild and can [ Read More ]
I’m so excited about all the people who are coming to the Midwest Birding Symposium! I can’t believe it’s coming up in mere weeks. Who cares about the birds, this is going to be the chance to meet so many birders from so many different places. I noticed that David Sibley has been added as [ Read More ]
No one is 100% why woodcocks move this way when foraging, the guess is that it is causing worms to move in the soil, making it easier for the woodcock to find them.
I need to get back to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park in Nevada. I blogged earlier that I given the advice by the Red Rock Audubon Society to visit here, since there would be different species than we would see in and around Las Vegas. We saw some great birds and I got a life [ Read More ]
It rained almost all day yesterday. I was enjoying the sound of water on pavement and getting some writing accomplished when I heard the tornado sirens. It was in the sixites, it was light out, no wind, no thunder, just a gentle rain. I immediately assumed the sirens were the monthly test, but realized it [ Read More ]
