by simpleDesigns | Dec 18, 2010 | Birding
What do you see when you get up at 5:00 am on a cold December morning and go birding? Today was the St. Paul Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count. Over 50 brave souls car pooled around St. Paul and suburbs counting everything that moved including Sparrows and...
by simpleDesigns | Dec 18, 2010 | Birding
Last week, Meteorologist Sven Sungaard and Jeff, a KARE11 camera man taped a Simply Science segment in our backyard. The subject was about the Christmas Bird Count and Audubon’s participation. St. Paul is in their 66th year of counting. Airs: Simply...
by simpleDesigns | Nov 15, 2010 | Birding
One of the joys of birding (and there are many), is seeing a bird for the first time. Today was one of those moments. Reports of a Townsend’s Solitaire in the area surfaced about a week ago and one of my good birding friends called yesterday to say...
by simpleDesigns | Nov 10, 2010 | Birding
A small flock of American Wigeon showed up today in one of our resident ponds. The warm southern breezes have a lot of birds sticking around longer than usual I presume. Even saw a pair of Wood Ducks today.
by simpleDesigns | Oct 30, 2010 | Birding
2 Artic Birds in the same week!!! Tuesday, I watched the Snow Buntings and yesterday I followed a MOU post over to Vadnais Lake and saw my first male Long-tailed Duck. Linda W and I viewed a female Long-tail in Prescott last winter, but this was a first...
by simpleDesigns | Oct 29, 2010 | Birding
I experienced my first up close look at a Snow Bunting this past week. I have seen these guys before in fast moving flocks but this was a first to watch them walk on the ground and peck at food. Very beautiful bird. The Snow Bunting is a bird of the high...
