There are more people interested in casual birding than we realize and you never know who that is. So, last fall I went to Las Vegas with Non Birding Bill, Clay Taylor and WildBird on the Fly to film some digiscoping videos, I think I had my biggest geek out ever–bigger than the time I [ Read More ]
First, if you are in dire need of spring/cute/amazing, there’s a live video cam on an Allen’s hummingbird nest. The chicks have both just hatched so should be fun to watch beyond the female incubating. Part of what made my golden eagle survey last Saturday so much fun was that it was that we were [ Read More ]
I can’t remember if I blogged this already, but I’m fairly certain that the above is a photo of Golden Eagle 42 that I took last fall. Mark Martell posted updates on Audubon Minnesota’s website weekly about this birds fall whereabouts, but kept almost daily track of the bird’s movements. I told him that [ Read More ]
Yesterday while out and about on a Golden Eagle Survey for The National Eagle Center, I came across a blue jay hanging out on some sumac bushes. I wondered if the bird was perching or if it was actually going to eat the berries. Sure enough, the blue jay started eating the berries. Sumac is [ Read More ]
I saw this video on the Digiscoping Facebook Page on how to make your own digiscoping adaptor with items you might find at home:
One of my favorite parts about this blog is that people email me questions about birds or photos to try and identify something. Every now and then, someone sends in some insanely interesting bird behavior and it knocks my socks off. I got an email from JJ Golden who was out taking photos of ducks [ Read More ]
As more editorials come out about the concern over bird strikes in airplanes, I had kind of a duh moment yesterday on Twitter. BirdDiva posted a link to the Merlin RADAR system as a means to track birds around airports. Well, duh! She brought up a good point–we can track bird and even insect migration [ Read More ]
Hello all, NBB here. Sharon’s still catching up from her trip to Atlanta (where TSA confiscated her deodorant for some reason) so you and I are stuck together. Deal with it. First off, a reminder that Birds and Beers is at the end of the month, and it takes place at a bar where you [ Read More ]
WARNING! SOMEWHAT GROSS PHOTO AT THE END OF THIS POST! I’m wrapping up my time in Atlanta and I wait for my flight home to Minneapolis. I have to say that the trade show that I went to was smaller than usual and one had to really search to find something innovative and not just [ Read More ]
“Hey honey, you got a second?” “Sure.” “Okay. Don’t get mad.” (sigh) “What happened?” “Neil thinks he saw an eagle come down and try to get a squirrel in his yard.” “Why would I be mad about that?” “Because you get mad when we think we see birds.” “Well, why don’t you two boys go [ Read More ]
