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 ]
This is the post that I was debating about: is it too much information? But Non Birding Bill said that is was gold…hm, interesting choice of words in hindsight. I was bebopping around in Mr. Neil’s woods on Sunday. I was in hot pursuit of a ruffed grouse and the report that a black-backed woodpecker [ Read More ]
Non Birding Bill went out with me today to Staring Lake Outdoor Center with Cinnamon. We were there for the open house and when we arrived, there were a ton of sparrows under the feeder. I tried to take a break here and there to get photos of fox sparrows, but the closest I came [ Read More ]
Winter storm warning starts today, April 10 at 4pm! We might be getting 4 – 6 inches of snow sometime within the next 48 hours. I shouldn’t complain…Duluth is supposed to get blizzard conditions (not blizzard like, just blizzard). While I was checking the traps yesterday, I heard my first field sparrows of the year [ Read More ]
I don’t know where this week has gone! Between the snow, an expected house guest, giving programs at the Northwest Sports Show, banding class–aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I’m leading a woodcock trip on Saturday night through Staring Lake Outdoor Center in Eden Prairie and I needed to double check the spot where we usually see the woodcock display. [ Read More ]
I am so loving the dead oak in Mr. Neil’s yard! This may look like a bunch of dead boring branches, but it is teeming with life. It was struck by lightening and had to be felled and when the tree was down, I asked if he would mind leaving it there to do its [ Read More ]
Dean Martin once asked Sinatra how he always managed to get such a great crowd reaction. Frank replied that he went out and started with three songs he knew would kill, and that after that, he could do anything he wanted, and the audience would love it. Borrowing a page from the Chairman, I’ve decided [ Read More ]
It was a brown bird bonanza yesterday at Carpenter Nature Center. I was in brown bird heaven watching all the Harris Sparrows (that’s one pictured above) and getting the chance to see them up close and personal during banding. I was hoping to get them on the NovaBird Camera, but alas, all I was a [ Read More ]
