This week has been fun for watching returning migrants. One morning there’s the usual winter birds and then the next morning you hear a robin on territory (had our first one singing outside of the apartment today). I went to Carver Park this morning before work and a flock of red-winged blackbird males were lurking [ Read More ]
There are some birds who are celebrities to me–one would be the potoo. I was into birds as a kid, I had a ton of books and I remember sitting in my room looking at bird books and there were certain birds that were iconic that I hoped to see one day when I got [ Read More ]
So, I just filmed an interview with WCCO while in Panama via Skype. It’s for the “Good Question” series and will air tonight at 10pm. I love it. Thanks to the wonders of technology, I sat in the bathroom at Canopy Lodge and answered crow questions over the intertubes. Thanks WCCO for making me feel [ Read More ]
A sample of waterfowl at Point Douglas right now.
I really hate car shopping. When we had to go through the process a few weeks ago, I heard through the MN birding grapevine that several northern hawk owls were reported in northern Minnesota, I decided a day up to Sax Zim Bog with my good friend Amber would be my reward. Besides, what better [ Read More ]
After we did some work at the beehives I took a few moments to get some photos at the bird feeders. I scattered a little bit of millet since I’ve seen juncos flitting around on the Twin Cities bike trails and along the country roads near Mr. Neil’s. Sure enough, a junco hopped on the [ Read More ]
There are some way cool links out there. One is over at Round Robin Blog and it’s all about an Albatross Cam! It is so cool. One of the photos from the albrotross backpack cam shows them feeding along with killer whales–how cool is that? Sigh, I would love to hang out at an albatross [ Read More ]
I mentioned earlier that I’m partnering with OpenSky. It’s an online store with birding products that I like. Part of my end of the deal is to make blog entries and videos of the product I like. Non Birding Bill and I see this as an opportunity to create some short fun birding videos. Below [ Read More ]
Zeiss rep Steven Ingraham posted this video he got with his scope and video camera combo of a great blue heron working a great big fish:
I need to get back to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park in Nevada. I blogged earlier that I given the advice by the Red Rock Audubon Society to visit here, since there would be different species than we would see in and around Las Vegas. We saw some great birds and I got a life [ Read More ]
