I spent the day birding around Arrowwood NWR while in North Dakota with my buddy Kate Fitzmeier. And when I say “around,” I literally mean around–it was completely flooded, note the the flooded road above. Some roads were more flooded than others. Check out the Slippery When Wet sign above–I’ll say! I was sad we [ Read More ]
Warning! The photos in this post might be gross for some for some readers. It’s about a piece of bird (most likely a rail) that I found on a barb wire fence. One of the things that really surprised me about this year’s Potholes and Prairie Bird Festival was the amount of flooding that occurred [ Read More ]
I’m currently in North Dakota at the Potholes and Prairie Bird Festival giving workshops and leading trips. Today was awesome, I did what I would call a slow and easy trip. It’s intent is to be a digiscoping workshop, give people a chance to try and take some photo of birds without feeling rushed like [ Read More ]
This past Sunday was just about as perfect as a day can get for me. It started at 4:15am when Kate and I woke up to load up our van for the ride home at the end of the festival. At 5am, we met up with good friends Kim Risen and Bill of the Birds [ Read More ]
Ah, marbled godwits in the sun! Since the first two days of the festival were windy and rainy and generally not all that fun to bird in, I was worried people would go away with a wet feeling about the festival. Prairie birding really is something everyone should experience at least once, but when it’s [ Read More ]
First off: I have spent the morning updating my appearances on my Google Calendar page (all the way into March 2009) and have even included the next Birds and Beers on June 19 at Merlin’s Rest. Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities to connect and share birding stories and [ Read More ]
While in North Dakota, I had the good fortune to stay in a trailer converted into a cabin called the Bobolink on the property of Pipestem Creek. If you are planning a visit to North Dakota, I highly recommend staying here. The photos on their site show the cabin, it can sleep six if you [ Read More ]
There appears to be a general lack of comments after the last entry. Non Birding Bill said the reasons was that all the birds were just brown, brown, brown, brown. After all the brown birds in the previous entry, I wanted to post some of the colorful things we saw. This red-winged blackbird was in [ Read More ]
Brace yourself for another brown bird bonanza. And if you watch Hong Kong movies, you get that reference in the subject line. So, thinking back to my bird watching experience on the prairie, I keep humming the Shirley Bassey version of Where Do I Begin?: Where do I begin? To tell the story of how [ Read More ]
Let The North Dakota Blog Updates Begin! I have so many updates, where do I begin? I think I’ll just be blogging all day long today and tomorrow. I must admit, the intense rain and cold winds on Thursday really put a damper (har har) on my excitement to go birding in North Dakota, but [ Read More ]
