Mattel takes a stand to promote kids in the outdoors by coming up with Bird Watching Barbie! Now I won’t be the only girl in the woods with lipstick and mascara. Although, Barbie, babe, you might want to consider trading in your fold up chair for a set of binoculars. You know, girl, you’re popular [ Read More ]
Periodically, I get questions from someone looking for a binocular harness without the leather patch on the back. They might be vegan or maybe they want a harness without a particular logo on back. I’m happy to announce that someone has heard your request and answered. I get a lot of binocular harnesses. Some companies [ Read More ]
There is a very cool new application out for the iTouch/iPhone called BirdsEye and I love it! The application was developed by Birds in the Hand, LLC, of Virginia, and brings together content from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, eBird, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Kaufman. It’s available on the App Store in iTunes. [ Read More ]
Wow, that was a title I never thought I would write. Playing around on Magnificent Frigatebird, I found some underwear that might be confusing if you were dating a non birder. I should mention that all of these are available as either boxers or thongs. First, in England, birders are called twitchers and instead of [ Read More ]
Holy Crap! I have found the best offering of bird shirts EVER. Check out these designs from Magnificent Frigate Bird (some of the shirts are even in girl sizes so we don’t look like a sack of potatoes, somebody finally listened): They have more, go check them out!
Another funny one from the folks at Birdorable. Note that there are several styles of shirt, bag, & hat you can get this on (and undies):
It’s time for some of my picks for gift ideas for the birder in your life. Here is a link to all my other past gift suggestions. The gift ideas range for birders of all ages and all abilities. I’m not paid by anyone to endorse any of these products, although a few you may [ Read More ]
Okay, I need lots of fingers crossed. We may have some exciting news tomorrow for a certain falcon we have all come to know in the blog. It’s VERY tentative, but still let’s all think the good though for the next 24 hours. So, from my bud, Mark Martell from Minnesota Audubon about the proposed [ Read More ]
ElizaBird sent me a link to something a little unnerving on Etsy: The description reads, “This man is on a spiritual quest, looking for that little baby bird deep within himself. 6 inches wide, 6 inches tall. If inches are not your thing, imagine the man head is about the size of a ken doll [ Read More ]
Busy tweaking late article, but here is some American oystercatcher goodness until I can blog proper: Got a note from Hawk Owl’s Nest this morning. He posted some links about bird related merchandise sold online. He sent a note that Mincing Mockingbird seems right up my ally. He would be right. Right now they do [ Read More ]
