[Note from NBB: Fixed the echo on this one as well. Big thanks to Olga Nunes for her help.] The latest Birdchick Podcast is up! In this, Non Birding Bill and I discuss teenage songbird song, eBird, the BirdsEye App, the Big Year Movie and Cornell’s upcoming Young Birder Event (which I get whiney about). [ Read More ]
[Note from NBB: I've fixed the reverb problem and reuploaded the audio file. Thanks for bearing with us while we figure out the technical end of things.] The latest Birdchick Podcast is up. Next one should be up on Monday. Here are links to some of the stories discussed: Starving eagles in Vancouver Island. One [ Read More ]
There are times, like when I’m sitting in Mr. Neil‘s sauna trying to thaw out a frozen bucket of honey from our hives on a Friday afternoon, I think, “My life is different from other people’s lives and such weird things come out of this.” One of them is the whole Geek A Week trading [ Read More ]
I get books sent to me all the time and the words, “innovative” and “revolutionary” and “amazing” get tossed around. The books are good, but rarely live up to the hype. Richard Crossley’s new Crossley ID Guide to Eastern Birds is a guide lives up to those words. This book is going to be talked [ Read More ]
The Great Backyard Bird Count was over the weekend and normally for bird county things I like to do it at Mr. Neil’s because he gets better birds at his home than I do. But I never cease to be amazed at what I can attract with some sensible bird feeding choices out of my [ Read More ]
Here’s the lastest podcast with me and Non Birding Bill. Download the podcast here. Here are links to some of things mentioned: Lang Elliot’s Snapping Turtle Song David Sibley on how to tell apart Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers Richard Crossley Guide to birds (there will be an expanded blog entry about this later this week) [ Read More ]
Around the holidays, I finally downloaded Angry Birds. Many of my non birding friends had been telling me that I needed the game for my iTouch but I resisted. Quite frankly, I really don’t need another sedentary hobby and I know how I am with “simple games.” Where Non Birding Bill will get caught up [ Read More ]
This is Bill, testing out a new bit of podcasting software. The file is an old one, but we’ll be creating new ones soon.
