I’ve been working on trying to catch birds in flight.  Usually, there is not enough light or I’m just not quick enough to catch a bird in motion.  Here are a couple flashing their wings for me….  Still not fast enough shutter speed though for clear...

To help with identification, the mother of this noisy kid finally showed up to feed him/her. Lunch is served…. Mom gets ready to leave again to search for more food. and finally shows her colors…. A beautiful female Prothonotary Warbler.  

Today’s ‘picture of the day’ will be somewhat of a tease to test your Birding ID skills.  More of this series will be presented over the next day or 2. Tina and I spent most of July 4th birding with some very knowledgeable birding friends in Washington and Ramsey...

“With a range that spans five continents, including much of North America, the Black-crowned Night-Heron is the most widespread heron in the world. It is most active at dusk and at night, feeding in the same areas that other heron species frequent during the day.” All...

One of my goals is to have a picture of each bird that we see for our life list.  June was a good month for pictures.  Here is one of the Eastern Kingbird.  Notice the white tip on his dark tail.

I have a goal of collecting a picture of each bird species that we record.  There are 4 possible Vireo’s in Ramsey County (7 in Minnesota).  We have now seen 3 of them.  We have not yet seen the Philadelphia Vireo and I still need a picture of the...

This great horned owl story on KARE 11 from the Raptor Center is one of the stranger cases that we’ve seen in the clinic. She is also proof that not only cars are a danger to birds, but so is carelessly discarded fishing equipment.

Last weekend as part of the BioBlitz 2009, the National Park Service set up a bird banding station with 3 remote nets.  We watched the staff catch and band several small songbirds including this Indigo Bunting.  It was surprising how small they actually are...

For the past several weeks. we’ve had a female Eastern Phoebe building and maintaining a nest on our neighbors house… literally on their house.  She built a nest on a garage light.  Today, we spotted 5 young Phoebe’s along our fence line; some flying and...