Blog - Ben & Tina's World

Tina and I just spent a cold and windy weekend in Frontenac and Lake City, MN. The middle of May is the height of spring bird migration and...

Pectoral Sandpipers (#999)

My friend and birding extraordinaire John Dillon helped me identify these guys as Pectoral Sandpipers. The image is from our recent trip to...

Thanks to a phone call from friend Judy Mikolai, we counted 40+ Common Loons and over 60 Horned Grebes on Long Lake Saturday. Most were quite...

With colder than normal temps, lingering snow cover and spring migration in full swing, the backyard feeders have been quite busy over the past...

Pine Siskin and (Hoary) Redpoll With a prediction for one last spit of snow this evening, winter still lingers in Minnesota. The backyard and...

For several years I have tried to view the Yellow-headed Blackbird. This past weekend in the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in central...