Perhaps tired of the slowness of the Cats Indoors campaign to take hold, a pair of hooded crows appear to be starting some you know what with cats: I love the Predator soundtrack that was added to this video. This may become a meme, as I see that someone has also put this video to [ Read More ]
There are some new photographic field guides coming down the pike, one is the newly available Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America by Donald and Lillian Stokes. I’ve sat with it for a few weeks to get to know it before I gave my review. So here it is, if you are [ Read More ]
I’m going to start this post off with landscape shots that have a brown bird called a common pauraque in them. See if you can find the bird(s) and at the end of the post, I’ll put up the photos pointing out where they are and you can see if you were able to find [ Read More ]
These are some redheads bathing and splashing against the sunset at Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas, TX. I took this particular photo through my spotting scope. The redheads were not at the best sun angle, but with the splashing, I thought it was an arty shot. It was a huge flock of birds. [ Read More ]
They had me at “Thou Shalt Not Wear A Tilley Hat.” Thank you GyrCrakes!
I can’t remember if I have put this in the blog, but tonight I will be at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center at 7pm in an auctioneer capacity for the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter. This fundraiser helps MRVAC with their educational programs. I’m a big fan of this Audubon Chapter, when [ Read More ]
My Beat Writer post is up over at 10,000 Birds. It’s about an interesting Cooper’s hawk in my neighborhood. And if you are asking yourself how did I know that the above birds was a Cooper’s hawk and not a sharp-shinned (or any other hawk) there’s a webinar that you might be interested in! My [ Read More ]
Man! A lot going on this week! I flew in from South Texas (aka the land of the above green jay) Monday afternoon and hit the ground limping! The limp was from the closing party at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival…I twisted my knee while singing karaoke–yes, that’s right, that’s how hard I bring [ Read More ]
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