Tonight is my program at REI in Blooming on Birding in Kazakhstan for the MN River Valley Audubon Chapter and it’s free. This is an excellent group to meet up with if you are new to the Twin Cities birding scene. It’s a fun an eager group of birders. You don’t have to be a [ Read More ]
We did another aerial survey of the Upper Mississippi yesterday. It was beautiful morning to fly over the river. We still are not seeing huge amounts of ducks and our pilot who is flying surveys all over the places said that Pool 9 to the south of us is just packed with ducks and even [ Read More ]
If you have a hankering to see some cool photos, check out the Kingfishers article from National Geographic Magazine. The underwater shots are unbelievable!
Here’s another fall warbler that we still having hanging around in the Twin Cities. This bird hit the nets a few inches from a yellow-rumped warbler. When Amber arrived to take them out, she had to separate them–they were fighting each other! I wonder if they chased each other in? I wasn’t sure what this [ Read More ]
Here’s this morning’s update on Golden Eagle 42! Mark Martell reports: “Our bird continues to move south although he slowed down a bit over the weekend (don’t we all). He spent last night in Ontario at approx. 52 N. Lat and 91 W. Long.” To read more about Golden Eagle 42, check out Audubon Minnesota.
Testing out an application for loading photos. Here’s a yellow-rumped warbler that was banded yesterday. There are still quite a few warblers to be seen around Minnesota!
Despite the snow we had in earlier in the month, the autumn appeared to really itself this weekend and give a couple of days of proper October weather. Fall color peak is creeping into the Twin Cities, especially along the Mississippi River. I had the fortune of being able spend a couple mornings around my [ Read More ]
I’ve had a few odd raptor moments in the last 24 hours. Yesterday, I came home from the grocery store I just happened to be facing the right direction and noticed a red-tailed hawk perched high in a neighbor’s tree. As I was calculating if I had time to run upstairs and get my scope, [ Read More ]
So, once a week throughout the fall I will be going up in a plane to do aerial waterfowl surveys for the National Park Service. It is equal parts fun and frustration. For one thing, ring-necked ducks look very snazzy in profile, but from above, they’re very dull looking and hard to id from scaup, [ Read More ]
Saturday I had to go put in a ranger appearance at an event at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary for an open house they were holding. It’s a great little park that still needs some work, but as more people hang out there, cool things will be found. This park has such interesting features–a closed up [ Read More ]
