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 Storm! [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
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 used [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
This is a problem that only I could have. Non Birding Bill and I had one of those exciting married people dates: did a little dinner, sorted some tax receipts, pretty much got down last night. While we were enjoying some sushi, my phone went off and I noticed the number was from Mr. [ Read More ]
And she’s still raising chicks! That’s right. According to bird banding records, a Laysan albatross on the Midway Atoll is now officially the oldest living (and breeding birds) in the wild! She’s at least 60, but most likely older than that, since she was already breeding when she was initially banded. According to the press [ Read More ]
We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog post to direct your attention to a link to a YELLOW northern cardinal found in Kentucky. This photo is interesting on many levels: Number 1. It’s a freaking yellow cardinal. Number 2. Is that raw chicken breasts being offered as suet on that feeder? The cardinal is cool. But [ Read More ]
Good grief! First we had the story of the 3000 – 5000 dead birds in a one mile area in Arkansas…and now we have another report of 500 birds dead on Louisiana. What the heck could be going on? Flockmaggedon?? Here’s my take: I agree that the New Year’s Eve incident in Arkansas was probably [ Read More ]
The news wires are buzzing with a story of thousands of blackbirds (mostly red-winged with a few grackles mixed in) literally falling from the sky in an Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday. The [ Read More ]
