When Swarovski took us birding out South Beach in Cape Cod, I made a beeline for ruddy turnstones. LOVE those guys. They’re shorebirds which give them a kind of Dr. Seuss look and they are so flashy looking. Attention must be paid to a turn stone. They are opportunistic and feed on rocky and sandy [ Read More ]
Some fun stuff is coming up. I’m doing a Showcase Minnesota segment Wednesday Morning sometime between 10 am – 11 am for City Birds/Country Birds. We’ll talk about the book release event at both Cardinal Corner locations August 23, 2008. Don’t forget, Cinnamon will be coming too. Book Signing Times: August 23, 2008:Cardinal Corner in [ Read More ]
So, about a month ago, I got an email from my buddy Clay about inviting some bird bloggers to the Swarovski Optik headquarters in Rhode Island. I wasn’t sure what exactly it was going to be about, but I figured Swarovski wanted to find out about this whole blogging thing. That was half true, but [ Read More ]
Last week was a little nutty. I’m still not even sure how I did it. Below is a little highlight to give you an idea of what’s coming in the blog this week. It started on Sunday when I did a canoe paddle for the National Park Service. One of the cool things about being [ Read More ]
Well, I just finished with a really cool and productive meeting with fellow bird bloggers (so fun to meet some of them face to face) and Swarovski. I learned many things (including the fact that Jeff Foxworthy is a big fan of Swarovski Optik…do you suppose he uses his optics for birding?) and much of [ Read More ]
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival November 5 – 9, 2008 is the site of the Second Annual Bird Blogger Conference. What does this mean? Well, a lot of bird bloggers in one place at one time to meet face to face, share ideas, watch some birds, and maybe even meet some potential advertisers and sponsors [ Read More ]
On the last day of the Cape May Autumn Weekend, a group of bird bloggers came to the birdJam booth and said they were going to go look at skimmers just down the street. I asked if I could come and they welcomed me along. What could be so great about skimmers some of you [ Read More ]
I started writing this entry last night, and completely fell asleep while typing it–completely slumped over on the couch. Thank goodness I didn’t drool on the keyboard. Ack! I birded this place Sunday, how is it now Thursday that I’m finally blogging it? Ah well, at least I’m getting to it now. When we watched [ Read More ]
I’m going through photos that I took at Cape May for coming blog entries and found what may be the first ever documented case of a Zombie Gadwall attempting to suck out the brains of a teal:
Some may recall from last year that I blogged about John Wood and The Raptor Project his bird program that he does at Cape May. One of the highlights is that he flies his white gyrfalcon out on the beach. He flies to a lure (an object with some meat attached to a long line [ Read More ]
