First A couple of announcements: I’ll be on Showcase Minnesota this morning sometime between 10am – 11am answering your bird questions. And the next Birds and Beers is scheduled for this Sunday at 4pm at Joe’s Garage to try and watch the winter crow roost. Now, the crows have shifted the roost a little bit [ Read More ]
So, when I was out looking at the harlequin duck last week, I found a few banded birds at Point Douglas. It’s not the first time, last winter I got video of a banded trumpeter swan. I sent the band info along to the Bird Banding Lab and it turned out the bird was from [ Read More ]
Golden Eagle 42 is still bookin’ it south in Minnesota and taking an interesting way down towards Wabasha. Mark Martell reported this morning: “Our eagle spent last night in Itasca County, MN about 3 mi. NE of Battle Island. He has been steadily making his way south at about 30 – 40 miles per day [ Read More ]
I think this photo caught with my WingScapes Cam kind of sums of the hodgepodge of the last few days. Check out the red-bellied woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, and female purple finch posing on the feeder (never mind that there are 6 other feeders). Note that the chickadee is sporting a band–that means that my buddies [ Read More ]
Here’s another fall warbler that we still having hanging around in the Twin Cities. This bird hit the nets a few inches from a yellow-rumped warbler. When Amber arrived to take them out, she had to separate them–they were fighting each other! I wonder if they chased each other in? I wasn’t sure what this [ Read More ]
Despite the snow we had in earlier in the month, the autumn appeared to really itself this weekend and give a couple of days of proper October weather. Fall color peak is creeping into the Twin Cities, especially along the Mississippi River. I had the fortune of being able spend a couple mornings around my [ Read More ]
Friday was an unbelievably beautiful day at Carpenter Nature Center. I ended spending way more time out there than anticipated. It ended up being a perfect day and now as I look outside my window to see TWO inches of snow with more on the way, I’m glad I took advantage of the fall color [ Read More ]
Minnesota was a little on the dry side this summer and autumn appears to be hell bent on making that up. It is non stop rain and that was certainly the case at Frank Taylor’s banding station this weekend. Not that I mind, last weekend was great and we got in a good number of [ Read More ]
A photo of a pair of hatch year sharp-shinned hawks (the female is the larger bird on the left, the male is smaller and on the right) means that it’s that special time of year for me. That special time when I try to cut back on where I travel to so I can have [ Read More ]
A birder scans the dawn for migrants. What a beautiful morning at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Ohio! During the Midwest Birding Symposium, I got the opportunity to observe some shorebird banding last Friday (which was a fun change of pace from the usual songbird banding I do on Fridays). The banding started at dawn [ Read More ]
