Texas couple ignore warnings to evacuate their home during wildfires and feed hundreds of hummingbirds. Birding the Net, the Audubon-sponsored campaign that has thousands of people scouring the Internet for birds, is benefitting from the largesse of more than 100 websites — including AOL, Slate, and Discovery Channel — that have donated a combined $700,000 [ Read More ]
So the Federal Duck Stamp contest is going on today and well this one is the best and weirdest.
I almost peed my pants watching this video this morning. It is HIGHlarious! Stick with it, things get interesting at the 20 second mark and end up amazing at the end. Herons are awesome and kudos to my buddy Clay Taylor for an excellent capture of this behavior. And that’s a young heron finessing its [ Read More ]
Two VERY interesting articles on my list this week. One from the American Birding Association’s publication called Winging It. Go to the Winging It page and click on Vol 23, no. 5 and look for Birding With A Conscience. Also, check out this article on Birding While Black–Does It Really Matter? He was part of [ Read More ]
I came across this photo from my trip to North Dakota with some birding friends last June and it reminded me–Thursday at 6pm is the next Birds and Beers at Merlin’s Rest! I can neither confirm nor deny that this photo has anything to do with the previous blog entry about my broken camera… Birds [ Read More ]
According to a press release a biologist from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tracked down a 16-mm film shot in 1956 by a dentist (who was riding a mule at the time) from Pennsylvania. The footage, which captures the last confirmed sighting of an Imperial Woodpecker in the wild, has now been restored and used [ Read More ]
There have been a ton of eastern bluebird flocks milling about when I’ve been doing my fall surveys. Their calls follow me everywhere on my surveys…and they always sound like they are apologizing for something. One of the birds caught my attention because he was just wacking the crap out of something on the fence [ Read More ]
Someone asked to see my MacGyver-like camera battery door repair. This is what I came up with when the camera door broke in North Dakota: I used a couple of hair rubber bands and a wad of paper to keep the battery in place. The hair rubber bands stretch out too quickly so I’ve switched [ Read More ]
Got this via @wr3n on Twitter. I think we should adopt this attitude today. Thank you, Internet.
I got an iPhone 4S with HD camera and video. I’m testing out ways to use it for digiscoping with my Swarovski Scope and DCA adaptor. I’m pretty impressed with the initial results. Will this cause me to give up my SLR? App I’m playing with this week: BirdBeat–kind of a field sketch book. Might [ Read More ]
