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A Bird in the Hand: Chickadee Videos

January 2, 2011

I just realized two things. 1. I hadn’t blogged here for a while and 2. I had not blogged a couple of little chickadee videos I put up on flickr. The first of these came about when I read Dena’s blog post about becoming a ‘proper’ birder. I’m not sure I want to set a [...]

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sun and blue skies – wow!

November 11, 2010

the birds were thrilled today, as we had one of those rare winter days where the murk and gloom disappeared and the sun came out to accompany a bright, cyan sky. it was lovely to hear their chirps, tweets and twitterings of bird-y happiness and the chickadees were particularly tuneful. may have heard a varied [...]

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Friday Feathers: missing the seed eaters

November 5, 2010

Some people disagree that feeding birds is a good idea. As temperatures drop and natural food supplies dwindle, I feel it’s important to feed the birds – I’d feed them all year round if I could. We only had our seed feeder (back) up for one month since moving here. Almost two weeks have gone [...]

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Friday Feathers: where did our food go?

October 29, 2010

good question. bad week – landlord ordered us to take seed feeder down. won’t go into detail here but it really sucks. still have hummingbird feeder up and are getting plenty of visits, but really miss all the squeaks and twitterings and punch-ups of the seed eaters. RightAntler remains very angry …

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Snow Geese Sunday | part two

October 23, 2010

A few more shots from Terra Nova last weekend, to accompany RightAntler’s original ‘Snow Geese Sunday’ post. although they were coming in to land, just one bird had one leg down good night!

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Friday Feathers: lbj’s rule

October 23, 2010

Not a particularly noteworthy week this week, compared to last. Last weekend we heard and saw lots of Snow geese passing overhead; I heard a Spotted owl calling to it’s mate – and was really pleased to see a Northern flicker on this feeder set-up for the first time. The feeder is still mainly dominated [...]

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Snow Geese Sunday

October 18, 2010

Back in 2003 I read a splendid little book called The Snow Geese by William Fiennes. At the time we were living thousands of miles from where the story was based, the migratory journey of the Snow Geese. Every year they complete an incredible journey between South America and the Arctic tundra. Six years later [...]

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