by simpleDesigns | Nov 28, 2011 | Birding
View Snowy Owls in the Upper US, 2011-12 in a larger map
by simpleDesigns | Nov 28, 2011 | Birding
Most Monday mornings, I join several local birding friends for a couple of hours of birding and photography. Today, we explored several Minneapolis lakes looking for water fowl. Seems most of the ducks have left town for points south. One highlight was 2...
by simpleDesigns | Nov 16, 2011 | Birding
Birding at Silverwood this week, we came across a Red-tailed Hawk with a completely white chest. Very pretty bird.
by simpleDesigns | Nov 11, 2011 | Birding
A male Pileated Woodpecker in our backyard. “Nearly as large as a crow, the Pileated Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in most of North America. Its loud ringing calls and huge, rectangular excavations in dead trees announce its presence in forests across the...
by simpleDesigns | Nov 10, 2011 | Birding
Snow Buntings in flight at the White Bear Lake beach “Appropriately named, the Snow Bunting is a bird of the high Arctic and snowy winter fields. Even on a warm day, the mostly white plumage of a bunting flock evokes the image of a snowstorm.”...
by simpleDesigns | Nov 9, 2011 | Birding
“A large, boldly striped sparrow of scrubby boreal forest and mountain chaparral, the Fox Sparrow is most familiar as a migrant or wintering bird. Its vigorous "double-scratching," kicking backward in ground litter with both feet to uncover food, often draws...
