I’m a sick, sick girl. Once a week, for work, I am assigned to go in a plane and focus an insane amount of energy watching and counting ducks from a plane. Then after an intense day of not stop ducking, I have to listen to the audio recording of my notes, tally the numbers [ Read More ]
We’re down to the bitter end in migration. The fall robins are all over the place in Minnesota. On the bike trails around town, the robins are so numerous, I can hear them over the sound of my headphones as I bike past. These tend to be more aggressive birds and I’ll admit that it’s [ Read More ]
Earlier in the summer I reported that an empty hive feel victim to a wax moth infestation. The frames were nasty and full of webbing and tons of squishy larvae. This gross combo did lead to me finding a way to combine my love of beekeeping and birds: It took some convincing, but the birds [ Read More ]
You may recall that earlier this summer, Mr. Neil’s newest dog Lola learned that if you violate bee ettiquette, you get stung. I must say, this incident of swollen dog face was not enough to convince her to avoid mischief around the hives. Non Birding Bill and I took her to the hives after this [ Read More ]
I found this nuthatch meticulously searching beneath each shingle for insects to eat. Woodpeckers aren’t the only birds looking for insects off the sides of houses.
The lone bee! It’s late fall and we are getting our bees ready for the winter. As we were winding our bee season to a close, I thought I would bring up 2 different pieces of bee equipment that have been incredibly useful to use this year. There’s a lot of bee equipment equipment that [ Read More ]
Clay and I both posted albums of our five favorite photos from Digiduel 2 on the Swarovski Optik Facebook page. You can vote on your favorite Clay photos here or my photos here. This photo of rock pigeons balancing on thin branches of a hackberry to eat the fruit was one of the photos that [ Read More ]
This downy woodpecker who appears to be under the impression that he is completely hidden from my spotting scope.
There’s a Birds and Beers at Merlin’s Rest at 6pm this Thusday. Birds and Beers is a friendly gathering of birders of all ages to get together and talk some birds. YIKES DIGIDUEL IS TODAY! If you saw this post this morning, I said the digiduel was tomorrow–it’s today! Clay Taylor and I are doing [ Read More ]
