Forget reading about the whole golfing scandal right now. If you want some sordid and violent love affairs, check out this story from TampaBay.com about a bald eagle threesome gone horrifically violent: “He’s everything she’s ever wanted in a man: distinguished, a caretaker, a homeowner. She’ll do anything to get him, even if that means [ Read More ]
Now let’s talk about some of the more challenging ducks on our aerial waterfowl surveys! Are you ready for some hardcore duck id fun! Sure you are! I placed this photo in my last blog entry about aerial waterfowl identification and asked if anyone could identify them and somebody did! Believe it or not, these [ Read More ]
I was going to post a second part to my waterfowl surveys but found my inbox chock full of emails. Apparently, my coupon code for OpenSky was a bit more popular than expected. Many shopkeepers were given a code to offer their readers and the surge in traffic with that, combined with the coupon code [ Read More ]
Check out this photo of a verdin watching a honeybee…then check out this photo–perhaps verdins are behind Colony Collapse Disorder? The photographer listed as nnitzky on Flickr wrote, “While waiting for hummingbirds to arrive at my feeder, this little verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) landed on my honeysuckle bush. I took a series of images of it [ Read More ]
Doing aerial waterfowl surveys is hard work. It’s a lot like shorebird identification, you can’t just rely on colors, it’s more general size, shape and impression–that’s right giss birding! I’m told that the hard part for many on these surveys is not getting motion sick in the plane. I can’t imagine being motion sick and [ Read More ]
On the off chance anyone here has not seen it, we have a new logo for Disapproving Rabbits and it’s available on a shirt and hat. Sunday, November 29, 2009 is the last day to place an order. We also have stuff in the Zazzle store which will continue to be available. We don’t use [ Read More ]
Well this is a nasty Thanksgiving Week surprise. Operation Migration is a group that has been using ultra light planes to teach an introduced population of whooping cranes their migratory flight path from Wisconsin to Florida. They raise the young cranes in captivity and great pains are taken to make sure they young birds do [ Read More ]
I hope readers who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful day full of favorite foods, gratitude and a minimum of family drama. Non Birding Bill and I thought of all the things we’re grateful for and one thing that I am always grateful for is the opportunity to work with birds of prey. There’s something captivating [ Read More ]
If you’re in the mood for a little something not bird related, Non Birding Bill and I are in a show at the Bryant Lake Bowl. It’s a little bit of Dickens and a whole lotta Golden Girls. We opened last night to a full house and a lively audience and got a mention in [ Read More ]
We had the Wingscapes Cam up at Mr. Neil’s this weekend and I’m fairly certain I witnessed the arrival of pine siskins. I was out and about on Wednesday and I didn’t see any. Just the usual suspects like the above tufted titmouse were using the feeders on Wednesday. Then on Saturday, I noticed one [ Read More ]
