Comments on: Trying My Hand At Hand Feeding

By: Birdchick

Birdchick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:14:50 +0000

Holy Cow–you guys are fantastic. Thank you for all the words of encouragement, that wasn’t my intent when I wrote that post, just thinking out loud.

And, just when I told NBB I was ready to go back on the blogging horse with renewed enthusiasm…our beloved Saturn Mini Wagon has been diagnosed as unsafe for winter travel by our mechanics and we must go searching for a new car. I’ve had to spend the week researching and test driving and learning to accept life with a car payment. Ow. You’ll note we’re selling Disapproving Rabbit t-shirts again. Let’s hope that OpenSky store picks up, although I’m hoping that does more for ABA kid bird programs than it does for me.

I’m so happy everyone still enjoys the blog even with the way it has changed and to find out what people want to hear about.

I’ve kind of stayed away from the cat issue…even though I have some whopper stories I could share…maybe I’ll finally share some of the emails I get regarding the cat issue. I have mixed feelings about the cats–I enjoy them, I think they should be indoors, but I’m not going to alienate good friends who let their cats roam outdoors and turn a blind eye to killing birds.

By: Art D.

Art D. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:15:31 +0000

Hey, I came for the bunnies, but stayed for the birds!

Birding, like any aspect of nature, is cyclical; anybody who writes about it will wind up blogging about the same things from time to time.

Your relationship with your blog sounds about like most people’s marriages: You’ve gotten past “infatuation” “courtship” “matrimony” and “honeymoon” and have now arrived at “we-love-each-other-but-no-longer-need-to-spend-every-single-moment-together”.
Or so says the guy who has been with the same woman for thirteen years

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:32 +0000

i have been birding for many years, and i read many many birding blogs. just so you know, i always read yours first, then if anyone else mentions the same stuff, i skip over it in those, you are first on my list! it’s your take on the birding stuff, and your wonderful attitude about birds and birding, not the bird information that makes your blog worth reading. if i just wanted the facts, mam, i’d read some boring birding news feed. hang in there, we need birders and birding blogs like yours. and NBB, and the bees are great too!

By: Cindy D

Cindy D — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:36 +0000

My husband and I got started paying attention to birds through our daughter who got very interested in birds in college. We don’t get tired of seeing the Gambel’s quail walk thru our yard almost daily and in the same vein I don’t get tired of reading posts about common birds or what you’ve been doing (I agree with Joanna above). Your photos help me identify birds – right now we’re trying to decide if it’s Harris hawks or sharp-shinned hawks or what we’ve seen on light poles in our community. Please continue!

By: Roby

Roby — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:48:53 +0000

I have been enjoying reading your blog although I’m not a birder by any stretch of the imagination. NBB’s posts were entertaining and educational. Thanks to both of you for putting some quality into the vast wasteland of the web!

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:26:29 +0000

I’m not sure why I first started reading your blog. But I stayed because it was fun to read about what you were up to on your birding adventures be they traditional birding, banding, traveling or otherwise and also for the links to other crazy bird media. And the occasional bee and bunny stuff just adds to the sense of what you’re about.

I really hope that you’re blogging because you WANT to and not because you HAVE to because of sponsorship deals or something. I’ve been kind of sensing your frustration with blogging just because the tone seems a little less fun recently. But maybe that’s just because you’re doing other fun stuff that isn’t blogable.

I’d love to see a Minnesota birding report just about what species you can find in a casual day birding. But I’d really like to see a post whereby you state that you recently went birding for FUN, without purpose and without feeling like you had to blog about it or profit from it. Because that’s what it’s all about as far as I’m concerned.

I hope all your current internet communication frustrations resolve themselves out into something you enjoy doing, Sharon.

By: @Bosque_Bill

@Bosque_Bill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:52:51 +0000

I read your birding blog, because it is generally interesting and you do interesting things that few of the rest of us do. The bee and other nature stuff is cool, too.

I also follow you on Twitter and enjoy getting those sneak-peaks at bird banding, for example, and then enjoy being able to read more about that activity on your blog later. So there is a synergy which is pretty cool.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:46 +0000

What kind of seed/feed do you have in this particular feeder? Look slike a little bit of everything. Do you typically make up your own feed or buy it by the bag?

By: Teri and the cats of Furrydance

Teri and the cats of Furrydance — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:04:57 +0000

For Peter, I recently saw this advertised and well, it would work I think and just like any collar, a cat would get used to it.

http://www.catgoods.com/index.html

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:51:37 +0000

You wear a lot of hats on your blog, but the reason I read it every day is not JUST because of the gorgeous photos, or the information about MN birding, or the bee stuff, or the great travel stories: it’s because of your writing, your voice, and the cast of characters, human and other, that you give us in the world you create in your blog. Having NBB and your guest-bloggers chime in is an added bonus. I see new things in the world around me because your pictures and stories, so thanks again for that!