Birdchick

After all the talk of the dead bird reports, I need to savor the birds right in front of me.  So, here is a random cardinal photo I took during our snowshoe outing yesterday:

Winter and lots of snow brings with it cabin fever. We have lots of modern conveniences that help ease that tension, like Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Streaming and alcohol! You don’t have to go to a rental facility, you don’t even have to wait for Netflix to arrive in the mail–you can have most  [ Read More ]

My non birding New Orleans fun is finished and I’m back in Texas to enjoy some time with friends at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. I had a brief love affair with a green-winged teal.  I don’t normally get the above view of a teal.  Generally, they are fleeing from our plane when we  [ Read More ]

There’s a Birds and Beers at Merlin’s Rest at 6pm this Thusday.  Birds and Beers is a friendly gathering of birders of all ages to get together and talk some birds. YIKES  DIGIDUEL IS TODAY!  If you saw this post this morning, I said the digiduel was tomorrow–it’s today! Clay Taylor and I are doing  [ Read More ]

Non Birding Bill may not like to travel with me to go birding, but he knows how much I love it and when he sees a good deal, he lets me know. I’ve been muttering all spring that I’m jonesing for a trip to Harlingen, TX and have been kicking around the idea of meeting  [ Read More ]

I think I saw an honest to goodness sign of spring this weekend around Mr. Neil’s. I did a little driving to look for golden eagles again and I was stunned by the number of horned larks I flushed as I drove along the country roads. This is a terrible photo of a horned lark–heat  [ Read More ]

I look out my apartment window this morning at the new snow cover taking note of the new parking restrictions in my neighborhood (no parking on the even side of the streets until April 1 or some significant snow melt happens). Sigh, not so long ago, I was in Panama, starting my morning with fresh  [ Read More ]

I saw this video on the Digiscoping Facebook Page on how to make your own digiscoping adaptor with items you might find at home:

As I type this entry, this is what the snow cloud RADAR looks like from KSTP. Non Birding Bill and I live in Minneapolis. The surrounding clouds kind of look like Oogie Boogie Man from The Nightmare Before Christmas about to nom us up. We may also be feeling the benefits of the bubble effect,  [ Read More ]

Last Saturday I helped out with the St. Paul Christmas Bird Count. I love the above photo, that’s two of our team members standing on the frozen Mississippi River counting ducks with the downtown St. Paul skyline behind them. My original intent was to just be part of a team, but St. Paul Audubon needed  [ Read More ]