Birdchick

“OMG! My nails are so long! I’m like a cross between Howard Hughes and a red-tailed hawk!” “I know, right?”

Man oh man, these last few weeks have been nuts, but fun.  I’m so looking forward to Birds and Beers tonight in Stillwater.  Hope you can make it.  Remember, if you come with nesting info to enter into MN Audubon’s Breeding Bird Atlas, you are entered in a chance for a free growler of beer.  [ Read More ]

I have to do some work around cows this week. I’m not going to lie, cows make me nervous.  Ungulates who stare at you and keep coming towards you are terrifying to me.  The only way they could be even scarier would be if they were bison.  That is just a lot of animal being  [ Read More ]

I just thought this was a really cool digiscoped picture of a coots face.  Normally when you see them out on a lake, you see a black duck with a white beak (yesssssssss, I know they aren’t really a duck but most people describe them that way).  Often, most don’t see their eyes.  Love this  [ Read More ]

Wildbird Magazine redid their website and they have contests going on. Threatened roseate terns establish a nesting colony on the roof of a government building in Marathon used by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Study shows penguins are “afraid of the dark” or more realistically all the things that will eat them after  [ Read More ]

Holy cow!  Amidst all of my travel in May and June, a Birds and Beers opportunity has come together and I’m really excited about it! The next Birds and Beers is June 29, 2011 (next Wednesday).  This time we’ve been invited to Lift Bridge Beer Company in Stillwater–we can sample some local beers!  Take the  [ Read More ]

Hello all, NBB here. This is a quick note to let you know that Sharon has an article up about the response to the destruction of the Heron Rookery on the MPR website. Check it out.

While on one of the birding trips for the Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds, we visited Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.  There had been a woodcock nesting right off a trail near the Nature Center.  As we walked towards it, the female appeared to have moved to right on the trail.  The refuge staff suspected that  [ Read More ]

  What’s everybody talking about this week?  Birds with Arms! Gyrfalcons are secret seabirds? Emperor penguin shows up in New Zealand.  And here’s a link to what Non Birding Bill mentioned: penguins nesting on landmines! Bald eagles defend nest outside of an Alaskan post office.      

When I last posted about the great blue herons renesting on the Mississippi River, I said that the rookery was not easily viewable from shore.  Tony Hertzel from the Minnesota Ornithologists Union sent a not mentioning Marshall Terrace Park.  I had driven by there and also viewed it from the river and it didn’t look  [ Read More ]