In case you have not heard, we’re buried under an old school blizzard dumping up here. The local weather folk were predicting with barely restrained glee the potential for a massive storm. And though many of us have heard in the Twin Cities that we could get 1 – 2 feet of snow, many of [ Read More ]
Well, we’re about to get Snomaggedon in the Twin Cities this weekend (12 inches with blizzard conditions). The birds are going bonkers at the feeders so I set out the Wingscapes camera to grab some images. The jaunty blue jay is loving the crumpled up peanut suet mixed with black-oil sunflower seeds. And then he [ Read More ]
Hey Minnesota–this story from Outdoor News is troubling: “Hunters this year bought fewer state duck stamps than they ever have before. As of earlier this week, the DNR had sold just more than 87,700 stamps. While the goose season still is open, it’s unlikely hunters will buy enough stamps to match the previous low sales [ Read More ]
One thing I love about visiting southern states is that some of the birds I see in Minnesota are so much more camera friendly. Pied-billed grebes are shifty in Minnesota, they don’t trust anyone staring at them for too long or they submerge and resurface further away. While in Corpus Christi, my buddy Clay took [ Read More ]
I had a very interesting day tracking down information about the movie The Big Year (the movie based on the book with the same name about 3 guys who try to see the most birds in North America in one year) starring Jack Black (above), Steve Martin (above) and Owen Wilson. First, let’s clear up [ Read More ]
Here is a curious article about an interesting hurdle faced by some urban beekeepers in Brooklyn…their honey is turning out bright red! Guess what the culprit is: Red Dye #40 from Dell’s Maraschino Cherries Company. So people who want hives in the neighborhood to contribute to the whole slow foods/locally grown/organic/natural movement are being betrayed [ Read More ]
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 ]
