Winter and lots of snow brings with it cabin fever. We have lots of modern conveniences that help ease that tension, like Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Streaming and alcohol! You don’t have to go to a rental facility, you don’t even have to wait for Netflix to arrive in the mail–you can have most [ Read More ]
First, an interesting news story that popped up over the Holidays: According to a story in The New York Times blog in the last week a red-tailed hawk was picked up in New York and eventually made its way to The Raptor Trust. Turns out that the hawk is over 27 years old! I was [ Read More ]
All afternoon robins and starlings have been using a puddle on the roof across the alley as a birdbath. The robins are only using it for drinking, but the starlings are going hog wild and bathing up a storm. As soon as they finish, they head to a nearby chimney to warm up and dry [ Read More ]
The next Birds and Beers is on January 22, 2011 at 4:30pm at Joe’s Garage. This is the one where we watch the millions of crows fly into Loring Park! I’m looking forward to this one, the crows at Loring Park are a spectacular sight and last year’s gathering was the biggest Birds and Beers [ Read More ]
Last week, I linked to the story about the bees producing red honey because the were gathering syrup from a Maraschino Cherry Factory–bees going for high fructose corn syrup, go figure. There’s an article over at The Grist about one of their writers went for a blind honey taste test to see if she could [ Read More ]
I know they are non native and cause problems, but I do love the look of starlings in winter plumage. This is a bird in my neighborhood resting after a good gorge on hackberries.
So, what does a bacon framed photo of the Golden Girls playing Dungeons and Dragons with Wil Wheaton have to do with anything. It serves as a reminder that tonight is the final night to see Non Birding Bill and me in the Golden Girls Christmas Carol at the Bryant Lake Bowl. This is also [ Read More ]
We got a wee bit of snow. We’re still trying to dig out of it. After watching the feeding frenzy at Neil’s on Friday, I felt certain that the weather folks were “for serious” when they reported one to two feet of snow was eminent the next day. Saturday morning I woke up to seven [ Read More ]
This is an interesting story and is not getting as much play as it should. It is the first news that has made me think we may have a serious idea of what might be causing bee colonies to disappear, commonly called Colony Collapse Disorder. This is a must read–why? Because a pesticide called clothianidin [ Read More ]
