FIRST! If I were the type of person who needed to call in sick to work, I would totally be taking sick days on Tuesday through Thursday this because it’s been nothing but southeast winds atHawk Ridge in Duluth right now (the worst for hawk watching) and according to Weather Underground Tuesday afternoon they are [ Read More ]
The lake was angry today my friends. It was chilly and breezy along Lake Superior today in Duluth, but it’s late October and in the 30 degree range, what do I expect? There were surfers taking advantage of the waves–and Non Birding Bill thinks I’m nuts for sitting in a box a dark box watching [ Read More ]
Periodically I am asked if I am really friends with Neil Gaiman. Yes, I am really am. And to prove it, I took Neil up for a day of hawk watching around Duluth, MN to experience the thrill of thousands of migrating birds of prey. First we stopped at my friend Frank Taylor’s hawk blind [ Read More ]
I finally got to spend a day at the hawk blind! This fall has just been CRAZY and I’ve barely had time to enjoy my favorite part of birding (hawk migration) but I finally had a chance to participate in some hawk banding today. I headed up to Duluth Saturday after a signing with Stan [ Read More ]
Bud Anderson sent me this photo of a red-tailed hawk with a deformed bill found in San Jose, CA. Last month I posted a photo of a peregrine falcon with an overgrown bill that we got in at a hawk banding station in Duluth, MN. To all of us at the banding station, it looked [ Read More ]
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match… So, if anyone out there is interested in picking up men, especially rugged outdoors type guys, I can’t recommend wearing camo enough. In order to go photographing with Wheeler and Tekiela we were ordered to be in full camo, plus they covered us in tarps so the birds would [ Read More ]
Okay, so several photos will be showing up on here from hawk trapping in the next few days after Amber and I start swapping, but I forgot to post the peregrine falcon with a a weird bill photo: Who knows what happened to this bird. The injury to the lower mandible looks like it broke [ Read More ]
I’m home from another weekend of hawk trapping. For the first time I got caught in nasty traffic on 35 south from Duluth. At one point it took Amber and I an hour to go ten miles. They had part of the highway down to one lane to work on a bridge. There are always [ Read More ]
Here are a couple more photos from hawk banding on Sunday. These are both sharp shinned hawks, one immature and one adult. Here is one of the merlins we banded. He’s just a fierce little killing machine!
Fall is the most wonderful time of the year. I spent a good portion of the weekend banding hawks. I arrived Saturday night after work and checked into the Inn on the Gitch Gumee in Duluth. The light from the moon danced on Lake Superior and overhead you could hear peeps of migrating songbirds. Sunday [ Read More ]
