The news buzzing around on the interwebs is that a birder in Massachusetts has been arrested while he was birding. The email recounting the birder’s plight can be found on the New Jersey birding listserv. The birder claims he was birding in Rumney Marsh and someone from one of the houses next to the marsh [ Read More ]
I’ll be heading to Atlanta for the birding trade show called Bird Watch America tomorrow looking for the latest and greatest in new birding products. I’ll also dip my toe into the ginormous AmericasMart because I suspect quite a few birding vendors are hiding there. I’ll probably do quite a bit of preview photos through [ Read More ]
How tiny is it? How about this: it preys on hummingbirds! Below is a video from the FatBirder Channel on YouTube. It’s a bird called a Tiny Hawk (Accipiter superciliosus) and it is about 8 inches long. To give you an idea, a robin that you would see in your backyard in North America averages [ Read More ]
Here is a link to a story of an adorable owl called a brown hawk owl (which looks like a cross between a boreal owl and a sharp-shinned hawk) that was photographed going after the shuttlecock from a badminton game. I especially love the photo of the owl trying to eat the shuttlecock–I’m sure after [ Read More ]
Well here is a strange bit of video from the BBC: 1. Strange because the newscaster refers to the birds as seagulls (oh BBC, I expected so much more from you). 2. It’s a story about gulls tearing pieces of flesh of the backs of live whales that surface the water. On the one hand, [ Read More ]
A big thanks to Non Birding Bill for filling for a day. I had a moment of panic. Every year, my agent sends me a nice card with a note of a charity that received a donation in my name for Christmas. This year, I didn’t get a card. I kind of panicked. I have [ Read More ]
