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So a couple of seeks ago we had some snow in April in Minnesota and people freaked out about birds. Yeah, I know I live in Minnesota and we get a ton of snow, but snow in April is brutal even for us. But people worried because we had a ton of robins in our [...] 
Well I had two very interesting things hit my inbox that are somewhat related. One is kind of a gruesome photo but fascinating: The above photo was taken by Lili Taylor (woman after my own heart, she takes pictures of dead stuff). In the photo, we have a dead squirrel and a dead raptor [...] 
We installed our new bees for the year over the weekend and a man named Matt Kuchta came out to film them in this really fancy pants slow mo camera. I have to admit, that when I arrived and Mr. Neil was beaming at me with, “We have a photographer coming!” I thought, “Really, I [...] This is from a documentary called Earthflight from BBC One and it’s narrated by David Tennant (aka the 10th Doctor on Doctor Who). This clip is really cool and explains why raptors don’t have an easy time grabbing a starling in a large flock (aka murmuration). It looks pretty awesome and not nearly as [...] 
Hey all, NBB here. Sharon’s still in Israel, but I wanted to let you know that Sharon’s Geek A Week card is now available for purchase at Think Geek (she’s in Set 3). The cards were illustrated by our buddy Len Peralta with text on the back written by our likewise buddies Paul and [...] I almost peed my pants watching this video this morning. It is HIGHlarious! Stick with it, things get interesting at the 20 second mark and end up amazing at the end. Herons are awesome and kudos to my buddy Clay Taylor for an excellent capture of this behavior. And that’s a young heron finessing its [...] 
According to a press release a biologist from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tracked down a 16-mm film shot in 1956 by a dentist (who was riding a mule at the time) from Pennsylvania. The footage, which captures the last confirmed sighting of an Imperial Woodpecker in the wild, has now been restored and [...] 
Non Birding Bill and I were over at Mr. Neil’s to do some fall beehive prep (for those who follow, the bees seemed to take my Ned Stark speech well and all but one of the hives actually bumped up production). After we finished checking the hives we were back in the house surfing the [...] 
Bird News: Response from Vermillion County, Indiana on why they gave such a low fine for killing an endangered species–essentially killing a bird like that is only a misdemeanor and though a Whooping Crane is valued at over $100,00–who would they pay that too? AKA the Hoosier State Law doesn’t care about wildlife and Indiana [...] |
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