Well, Friday morning turned out to be far more exciting than I anticipated! I had to work at the park service in the afternoon and evening and I was meeting a friend for a late breakfast. I thought that since it was warm, I’d peek at the great horned owl nest in my neighborhood and [ Read More ]
Bird News: Response from Vermillion County, Indiana on why they gave such a low fine for killing an endangered species–essentially killing a bird like that is only a misdemeanor and though a Whooping Crane is valued at over $100,00–who would they pay that too? AKA the Hoosier State Law doesn’t care about wildlife and Indiana [ Read More ]
Ah, bird festival season is almost upon me. Next week is the Horicon Marsh Bird Festival…although, every time I mention it to Non Birding Bill, he thinks I’m either going to a horror convention or meeting up with some odd transformers. But I am so looking forward to birding this part of Wisconsin–it’s been too [ Read More ]
Well, the weather certainly isn’t cooperating for woodcocks this year! I’m not willing to cancel Birds and Beers outright, so let’s go ahead and meet at Merlin Rest tonight at 6:30pm instead of a very soggy and muddy Lebanon Hills. Sorry if this puts a damper on anyone getting a lifer woodcock.
This is Kelly McCullough, he came out with us to help hive four more packages of bees on Sunday. His family kept bees when he was kid and I have to say, he’s the first person I’ve ever seen get almost every single bee out of the travel cage. I can’t remember if it was [ Read More ]
This yellow-bellied sapsucker was feeding off the wells of sap near our beehives yesterday. The woodpecker was making the rounds to various tree trunks and I noticed that some yellow-rumped warblers would come down for the sap too. Remember, people in the northern US, if you see sapsuckers, hummingbirds are possible. They follow the sapsuckers [ Read More ]
Bird News: Cooper’s hawk crashes a Brewer’s game while trying to nail a pigeon. Photos of the young hawk here. Angry Birds and BirdLife International team up. Watch wild birds instead of only playing Angry Birds! Olivia Bouler (who is 11) has raised more than $200,000 for oil spill relief…oh and yeah, she has a [ Read More ]
Today, I had a co-worker ask me, “Is it possible that I saw a bird called a dick-shizzle?” I don’t think they were using Snoop Dog speak to talk birds, I think he mean dickcissel. It is possible to see them, but it’s a bit early, but in migration anything can happen. He said that [ Read More ]
News: SO ANGRY! Indiana screwed up in a big way. The Hoosier State sent a message that killing an endangered species like a Whooping Crane is only worth $1. Seriously, they fined Wade Bennett and an unnamed minor who killed an endangered species ONE DOLLAR. Unacceptable. Osprey chick that hatched after being removed from a [ Read More ]
I’m so bummed, I took video of Mr. Neil‘s first ever bee installation yesterday and I left the video card in my bee suit out at his house. Gr. I’ll have to get it on Sunday. We started our first great bee experiment this year. We’re going to have a total of 7 hives: 3 [ Read More ]
