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 love days that do not turn out the way I thought they would.  Especially when the original plan included copious amounts of laundry. It started when the woman who does my hair (Rachel) texted and asked if I wanted to go fishing.  I did want to inaugurate my pole to the season and I  [ Read More ]

The Billy Idol of blackbirds.

Cooper’s hawk and its eternal question: Can I eat that?

Just a quick heads up about the podcast this week.  It looks like we’ll only be able to record one and we will record it Tuesday night and it will be up Wednesday morning.  I’m right in the middle of my crazy spring work schedule.  As I type this, I’m in Utah and won’t be  [ Read More ]

Solitary sandpiper lurking around Mr. Neil’s creek.

Someone asked on Twitter if this was the year of the sora because the seem to be EVERYWHERE. This is a sora that was very cooperative at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.  I took this before I left for Horicon. I was walking by the Bass Ponds and I could hear several soras when  [ Read More ]