by simpleDesigns | Jul 3, 2009 | Birding
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.
by simpleDesigns | Jun 25, 2009 | Birding
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...
by simpleDesigns | Jun 23, 2009 | Birding
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.
by simpleDesigns | Jun 20, 2009 | Birding
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...
by simpleDesigns | Jun 18, 2009 | Birding
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...
by simpleDesigns | Jun 16, 2009 | Birding
We have some new visitors this month to the back yard. We’ve heard them for some time, and finally had a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers stop by to check out the resident bird houses. The GCF is usually easier to hear than to see.
