A photo of a pair of hatch year sharp-shinned hawks (the female is the larger bird on the left, the male is smaller and on the right) means that it’s that special time of year for me. That special time when I try to cut back on where I travel to so I can have [ Read More ]
I highly recommend saving this link should you ever be having a hard day, just bookmark it now. I give you a snippet of the Little Ringed Plover nest cam. Feel like an egg about to be incubated. I’m now watching it for the twentieth time.
I had a fun ranger assignment today. We periodically use heron decoys for some of our birding programs at the park. We have two, but one went missing and a new one was purchased. However, when the ranger went to purchase a new great blue heron, all that was in stock was a sandhill crane. [ Read More ]
A birder scans the dawn for migrants. What a beautiful morning at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Ohio! During the Midwest Birding Symposium, I got the opportunity to observe some shorebird banding last Friday (which was a fun change of pace from the usual songbird banding I do on Fridays). The banding started at dawn [ Read More ]
Are these the same species or different species? What species do you think they are?
Now here is a dramatic video! As a bird handler, you have a tremendous responsibility of keeping the bird safe while you are working with the public. If all goes well, it’s a great educational tool. If all does not go well…it can be a disaster for the birds and for the audience. Here is [ Read More ]
Blackpoll warbler chips outside my bathroom window. I look through the screen. It chips and flies away as if to say, “You just got served!” I did? I got served. Holy crap, is it on? According to Mike McDowell’s blog, it’s on. Fall migration has totally hit and from looking online, some of the hottest [ Read More ]
This is not the best photo, but these crows were just outside my kitchen window trying to pick some plastic flap off of the telephone wires. These must be young crows trying to figure out what is edible. I wonder what gave them the idea that this orange tag might lead to food? I crouched [ Read More ]
I mentioned earlier that I’m partnering with OpenSky. It’s an online store with birding products that I like. Part of my end of the deal is to make blog entries and videos of the product I like. Non Birding Bill and I see this as an opportunity to create some short fun birding videos. Below [ Read More ]
Thanks for all the guesses in the blog and on Twitter. DC Birding Blog guessed correctly when he wrote Wilson’s snipe. I love that tail, it looks like a mini red-tailed hawk tail. Tai brings up a good point, note how small the feathers are in relation to the fingers–they are small birds. Here is [ Read More ]
