Don’t forget, there’s a Birds and Beers at at Once Upon A Crime book store on Lyndale Avenue South and 26th Street in Minneapolis at 7pm on Thursday, September 10. Well, help celebrate the release of Jan Dunlap’s second book in her murder mystery series: Murder At Warbler Weekend! Afterwards, we’ll hit up one of [ Read More ]
I did a bit of ranting on the blog Saturday night about a Diversity Conference happening at Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Ohio at the end of the month. I was irritated because I had not heard about it sooner and was not able to go and lamented that the organizers were doing a poor [ Read More ]
You may recall that I took a little trip to Kazahstan in May…I still have a few posts left to write about this wonderful place. I don’t know if I will ever get back, but I hope I do. I have said it before and I will say it again, if you want to feel [ Read More ]
If you are looking for the hummingbird nectar recipe I used on KARE 11 today, it is four parts water to one part sugar. And for this area, do keep your hummingbird feeders up, we can see hummingbirds in Minnesota well into October. It is a myth that hummingbirds will not migrate if the feeder [ Read More ]
There is a very interesting conference coming up and I’m so irritated that I just found out about it today when it’s too late for me to plan a way to get there (note to organizers PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS MORE THAN 3 WEEKS AHEAD OF TIME, especially if you want people from around the country [ Read More ]
Not that I could deny before, but migration is totally on. We got in our first fall white-throated sparrow in the banding nets at Carpenter Nature Center on Friday. I think this is the earliest we’ve ever had one. I’m very curious about this fall’s migration. Will our cold summer cause changes? It’s been too [ Read More ]
Did you know that September 5 is International Vulture Awareness Day? Vultures like the above turkey vulture may seem to be in good shape in the United States, but vultures in other countries face some daunting challenges that include habitat loss, poisoning, and poaching. The IVA started as Vulture Awareness Days run by the Birds [ Read More ]
Usually, it is the hummingbird that is the best at communicating when the feeders are empty. If you have a nectar feeder and it goes empty, one of the best clues is a hummingbird flying up to the window as if to let you know the nectar is bad or empty. If you have studied [ Read More ]
Believe it or not, that large suet log is not big enough for those three downy woodpeckers. What’s even crazier is that the suet that is currently in there is not the best suet on the planet. The label read “high energy peanut” but when I was mashing it into the holes on the log, [ Read More ]
I had to go the DMV yesterday to replace a lost license. Fortunately, I downloaded a fun app for my iTouch to pass the wait called birdJam Twitch. The game takes 660+ North American bird species photographs on the birdjam software and organizes them into 31 “flocks” for the East, West and all of North [ Read More ]
