Recently, Dennis Donath who I volunteer with at Carpenter Nature Center sent out an email announcement to bunch of us that a local large scale retailer was going to have one heck of a deal on bird seed, specifically black oil sunflower. It was one of those Black Friday deals of black oil sunflower seed [ Read More ]
The next Birds and Beers is December 17, 2009 at 6:00 pm at Merlin’s Rest. Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities–if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. You can meet other birders–maybe find a carpool buddy, ask about where to find target birds, share cool research projects you might [ Read More ]
There is a very cool new application out for the iTouch/iPhone called BirdsEye and I love it! The application was developed by Birds in the Hand, LLC, of Virginia, and brings together content from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, eBird, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Kaufman. It’s available on the App Store in iTunes. [ Read More ]
I just got an email from from OpenSky that from now until Wednesday at midnight you can sign your email up and receive a coupon. Coupons range from $15 – $100 off or 10% – 50% off. If you are interested, you enter your email address here and use the code BIRDCHICK. Everybody who enters [ Read More ]
Last Saturday was the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union Paper Session (a boring term for annual gathering). One of the presentations was from John and Lisa Loegering about attempts to produce Nyjer in North America. Let’s get some basics down about this seed first, on the off chance that someone reading this doesn’t know about the tiny [ Read More ]
Peregrine falcon vs snowy owl. What more do you need to know?
I thought this was a fun contrast of jays feeding at Sax Zim Bog. Here we have the gray jay feeding on the deer rib cage–something that they would feed on naturally in the wild if say a wolf had killed a deer and the cage was exposed to the elements: And here we have [ Read More ]
Well, now here is an interesting article from BBC News on how bird feeding id affecting birds over in Europe. The traditional thinking with bird feeding is that birds use feeding stations as a small part of their diet, using various other sources for food. But a study on a European warbler called a blackcap [ Read More ]
I really hate car shopping. When we had to go through the process a few weeks ago, I heard through the MN birding grapevine that several northern hawk owls were reported in northern Minnesota, I decided a day up to Sax Zim Bog with my good friend Amber would be my reward. Besides, what better [ Read More ]
I went out for some much needed birding with a good friend yesterday. As you can see, we were successful in our quest to see a northern hawk owl. This is one of several photos I’m in the process of putting together for the blog. We stopped a birdfeeding station and I just love this [ Read More ]
