Birdchick

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 ]

This is a pair of redheads (a type of duck) seen during last weekend’s Horicon Marsh Bird Festival.  Horicon Marsh is over 33,000 acres in size and at first glance it may appear to be managed for Canada geese and muskrats, but redheads are one of the main targets for optimizing habitat. If you are  [ Read More ]

This yellow-bellied sapsucker was feeding off the wells of sap near our beehives yesterday.  The woodpecker was making the rounds to various tree trunks and I noticed that some yellow-rumped warblers would come down for the sap too.  Remember, people in the northern US, if you see sapsuckers, hummingbirds are possible.  They follow the sapsuckers  [ Read More ]

Birding got the better of me yesterday–you will note there is no podcast today. I had my day all planned out, serious writing to do, if I got to certain point I would ride my bike for exercise, then tidy up the kitchen, mop the floor, make dinner, record the podcast and then bed.  The  [ Read More ]

“Pbbbbbbbbbbbt!”

“Even I’m impressed with how robust my chest is.” And yes, that is snow in the background of this photo.  Spring is not quite here.