Archive for June, 2009
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Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Lisa has been keeping Birdcouple.com going (there could never be any question about Birdcouple itself keeping going), while Warren has been galavanting around the world. Well, to be more precise, Warren was in Iran for 10 days covering the election, which turned into quite another story … but that’s another [...]
Out of town, moms and signs
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Ghost and I went to the Kenai River Festival last week. Thanks to Ken and Judy Marlow for putting us up. Ghost got to spend his first night perched out at the foot of my bed. I didn’t feel that he needed to stay in his kennel all night. He [...]
An Empaled Stork Solves Mystery…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
This is the Pfeilstorch or the Arrow-Stork which can be found, stuffed, in the Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock.
The Arrow-Stork was discovered in northern Germany, alive and fairly well, in 1822.
The only problem was that it had an 80 cm long spear stuck in its neck.
A spear [...]
Blue Grosbeak in Old Field
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
This morning, for the first time this season, I heard a Blue Grosbeak singing in the old field. The warbled high notes of its song cut through the traffic noise of the highway below, though just barely. It was hard to hear anything else but trucks and cars and SUVs.
I found [...]
Celebrating the Pollinators…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Yes, Cute Husband and I will take any opportunity to party!
And, this week we are in the midst of celebrating Pollinator Week!
There are about 200,000 species of pollinators which include hummingbirds, bats, beetles, bees, ants, butterflies, moths and even wasps.
Without the work of these creatures [...]
First-spring Summer Tanager
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
A first-spring Summer Tanager sang a tentative song from the branches of oaks and pecans in the front yard this morning. The song was clearly the slurred, musical whistle of a Summer Tanager, but much softer and more hesitant. Splotched about half and half rose-red and deep yellow, he sang not [...]
A Different Eastern Towhee Song
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
This morning – another hot, sunny day – a male Eastern Towhee sat on a wire along the road that runs by the old field, singing a song that ends in three sharp, quick tink-tink-tinks. This song is different from a Towhee’s usual drink-your-tea song or to-whee call, and it often [...]
Turkey Vulture Sunning
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Also this morning, I walked off the road that runs along the field and up a rutted driveway that leads to an abandoned house and an overgrown, weedy area, and found two Black Vultures and one Turkey Vulture all perched on the tops of separate poles. One Black Vulture and the [...]
On the Summer Solstice – Scarlet Tanager, Red-tailed Hawks, Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
Back home in northeast Georgia, we’re in the middle of a heat wave as summer officially arrives, with temperatures near 100 for the past few days, and more of the same in the forecast for next week. The rasp of cicadas rises and falls, and grasshoppers sing. Wasps, bees, dragonflies and [...]
Bad Fishing and other birds
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Young guys seem to get in the most trouble, no matter what species they might be. Because of the population of eagles in Alaska, we get to see quite a few.
This guy was sent to us by Liz of U.S.F.& W. in the Kenai NWR. He some how got tangled [...]
Macro Monday
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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No New Year Birds from Iran….
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
Cute Husband returned on Wednesday from covering the election in Iran.
His work (said his proud wife) can be found here:
Apparently he was a little busy and didn’t get a chance to add anything to the BirdCouple year bird list….
Sigh. So good to have him home…
Birding tomorrow morning, Love?
Rating 3.00 out of [...]
Dickcissel
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
The first bird we saw at Randolph was the Dickcissel, yet another life bird for all three of us. They were all over and are very chatty birds. They pretty much sang the entire time we were there. I think I was most pleased with these shots from the day.
Rating 3.00 [...]
Bobolink
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
We had never seen a Bobolink before and although we had heard they were there, we didn’t spot this one until right before we left. We were just saying that it was time to go and my Father spotted a bird farther out in the field so he went to check [...]
Grasshopper Sparrow
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
Here’s the Grasshopper Sparrow from the other day. There call is actually quite distinctive. My mother compared it to a locust which I had to agree with.
Again, if this looks like the wrong ID please let me know!
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Wood Stork, Gull-billed Tern and Other Activity Around Marsh Ponds
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
In addition to the Black-necked Stilts and Ospreys, many other birds were active around the Willet Pond and Ibis Pond on Kiawah. Clate got some amazing photographs – the best part of these postings by far! Click here to see a slide show.
Four Wood Storks soared overhead and then flew [...]
Osprey in Owls’ Nest, Kiawah
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
On our visit to Kiawah Island, SC, last week, a pair of Ospreys were active around a nest occupied by a Great Horned Owl in mid-March. (March 15 blog posting) Photos by Clate Sanders
The two Ospreys were present around the nest area each of four times we went there during the [...]
A normal day at the flight center
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Britt and I went to the flight center on Friday to feed our feathered friends and to get Adolph, a bald eagle and bring him back to the clinic. He’s being released on Saturday, yeah!
One of our electrocution birds that we call Gomes had a feather caught on his beak. [...]
North Dakota is for Bird Lovers!
Submitted by BrdPics Blog
Hi everyone- I’ve been madly birding for the last 4 days at the American Birding Association conference in Minot, ND. Up at 4am each day, out to see tons of cool birds doing cool things, and then back to network and socialize with a great group of birders, hear informative talks, and [...]
Savannah Sparrow
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
Hello All,
Last weekend I went down to the Randolph Industrial Park with my mother and father we saw quite a few new birds for all of us. My expectation was that this was going to be a park in the sense that it would have trails, or a playground, or something [...]
Black-necked Stilts, Kiawah Island
Submitted by Birding Notes Blog
The birding highlight of a visit to Kiawah Island last week was finding Black-necked Stilts in the marsh grasses around the Willet Pond – along with four Wood Storks, two Glossy Ibis, several Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Tri-colored Herons, at least one Little Blue Heron, two Green Herons, four Least Terns, [...]
Anchorage Rehab Center Helps Injured Birds Return To The Wild
Submitted by Bird TLC Blog
Anchorage Rehab Center Helps Injured Birds Return To The Wild
Lauren Maxwell CBS 11 News
Updated: 06/14/2009 12:31:44 PM AKDT
Did you know that Alaska is home to over half of the wild bird species that live in the entire U.S.? Or that wild birds from around the world migrate to our state every [...]
3 Hours of Birding. Not One Bird.
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Yes. You got that right.
Three solid hours of birding with Dan Haas of Nervous Birds fame and not one dang bird.
Dan helped me do a Nightjar Survey coordinated by the Center of Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary because Cute Husband is off doing important [...]
The Most Romantic Place on Earth…
Submitted by The Birdcouple Blog
Ok, Paris is nice too!
But nothing beats an old fashioned swamp in the spring!
Birds singing over territories.
Frogs calling from the trees and croaking from the wetland.
Bugs of all diversity eating or being eaten.
Sigh.
Yes, there is nothing like a romantic date in a swamp, preferably right after [...]
Carlos Avery Continued
Submitted by Craigs Birds Blog
I did find a life bird while I was at Carlos Avery on Friday. When I saw it, I knew that it was not a bird I had seen before. I didn’t have my field guide but I made a good guess at what it was and was able to confirm [...]
