Some may recall from last year that I blogged about John Wood and The Raptor Project his bird program that he does at Cape May. One of the highlights is that he flies his white gyrfalcon out on the beach. He flies to a lure (an object with some meat attached to a long line [ Read More ]
At first when I was looking at my schedule and budget for the fall, I was worried I just wouldn’t be able to get to my friend Frank Taylor’s hawk banding station–my favorite bird activity I do all year. I was very down that I would not get to see a northern goshawk (my favorite [ Read More ]
There was a request to see video of me giving a Raptor Center program. I don’t have that, but Tuesday when I was feeding the education barn owl during my volunteer shift, I had fellow crew members, Maddy and Sue take some video with my camera and just ask me questions. This is not like [ Read More ]
A question came up in the previous entry about banding young raptors, do we worry about being bit and do we band the adults (and if so, how do you get the adults)? Let’s talk about handling raptors: If you have ever noticed from my fall hawk banding photos, we always are holding the hawks [ Read More ]
This weekend wore me out. I am not a creature meant to spend lots of time in high temperatures and hot sun, but I found myself in it quite a bit. The upside is that I don’t notice while I’m having fun and observing birds, but the downside is that when I get home, I [ Read More ]
Well, it’s about darn time in my book. I’m happy to see that in my lifetime that today we have gotten something very right with conservation and that the national symbol for the United States of America has been taken off of the Endangered Species List. The move is important on so many different levels–number [ 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 ]
Yesterday they banded the peregrine falcon chicks at the Colonnade Building in Minneapolis. This week has been so insane–I just can’t seem to keep up with the schedule. I had a business meeting this week and the poor woman and I were trying to get our schedules to sync up, I finally asked, “Dawn, do [ Read More ]
Tonight, I was putting away groceries and Non Birding Bill was talking on the phone He came into the kitchen flailing his arms at me while still carrying on his phone conversation. After a few seconds of wild flapping, I finally understood that he wanted me to look out the window. Much in the same [ Read More ]
Raptor Skiing! Check out the photos here, here (sweet doubles!), and here. They’ll have fun, fun, fun until daddy takes the red-tail away. Alan Stankevitz got photos of a red-tailed hawk while it was being harassed by red-winged blackbirds chasing it out of their nesting territory.
