The next Birds and Beers is Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 6pm at Merlin’s Rest. Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities–if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. You can meet other birders–maybe find a carpool buddy, ask about where to find target birds, share cool research projects you might [ Read More ]
Amy, Clay, and I had great looks at other birds besides the osprey starting a nest. We started the morning at the jetty where many fishermen gather, as do birders. We saw so many dolphins, it could have qualified as a starling flock. But we were not after marine mammals, we wanted to scan the [ Read More ]
The Harlingen Airport is happy to see birders in Texas–look at the size of that banner! I feel so welcomed for the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. We had the opening reception last night, which is a great time to reconnect with friends and eat some fancy foods. There was a new addition to the [ Read More ]
Holy Buckets, I am in love with the boys at the Golden Valley, MN National Camera Exchange. My all-time favorite point and shoot digital camera to use for digiscoping is a Fuji FinePix E900. It’s been discontinued and hard to find. They found one for me. I’m takin’ that bad boy to Texas. The Canon [ Read More ]
I dedicate the following video to Hasty Brook and hope that she got a Carolina wren before she left Cape May to return to Minnesota. A posse of bird bloggers gathered again for the Cape May Autumn Weekend and since I ended up working the festival, I was able to see them. They had gathered [ Read More ]
Between the excitement of Peregrine 568s recovery and getting ready for tomorrow’s book signing, I almost forgot that today is Skywatch Friday. You create a blog with photos of sky and then you add your link to the Skywatch site. While there, you should check out everyone’s photos of sky. Some of my favorites this [ Read More ]
One of the things I wasn’t able to talk about right away from the Swarovski Blogger Event (or Swarblogski as Non Birding Bill calls it) was that we got to see the new Swarovski ELs. They just debuted them at Bird Fair so now I’m allowed to talk. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting that much of [ Read More ]
Hey, on Monday at 3pm, I’ll be on Twin Cities Live talking about attracting birds to your yard and the City Birds/Country Birds book signing on August 23, 2008 at Cardinal Corner: August 23, 2008: Cardinal Corner in West St. Paul Store (651-455-6556) 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Cardinal Corner in Newport (651-459-3880) 1 p.m. [ Read More ]
So, Swarovski took all us bloggers out to the remote South Beach section of Cape Cod for some birding and digiscoping. The morning started foggy and chilly but warmed to a sunny day–a few times, it looked more like we were in a desert rather than the cape. We saw some horseshoe crabs. They do [ Read More ]
While birding at South Beach in Cape Cod last week, we found some banded American oystercatchers. Above is number 52. At first, I was going to enter its information to the Bird Banding Lab (where one typically submits found band numbers), but the yellow tags with fairly easy to read numbers usually means there’s a [ Read More ]
