Hey, guys--want some advance notice when a hawk or shrike is in the neighborhood? Check this out! http://itunes.com/app/birdseye
Friday, December 4, 2009
Now THIS looks like a useful app!
Hey, guys--listen up! Now we can keep track of where the tastiest teal, the most scrumptious shorebirds, the most delectable doves, and the most palatable pigeons are with this great new app!!! http://itunes.com/app/birdseye
An achingly sad announcement
Liz Condie of Operation Migration posted the following news yesterday:
FIRST FAMILY MATRIARCH DEAD Location: Cumberland Co. IL
217*, mate of 211, the pair whose offspring is W601*, is dead. Because W601* was the first Whooping crane to be hatched in the wild in the U.S. in more than a century (in 2006), the threesome was dubbed the First Family. (A second chick was also hatched - W602, but was predated on the Necedah NWR in late summer of 2006.)
In a report received late yesterday, Dr. Richard Urbanek advised that the mortality was discovered on Tuesday by WCEP Tracker and ICF Tracking Field Manager, Eva Szyskoski during an aerial flight over Vermillion County, IN, a traditional migration stop for this pair.
Richard reported, that while the male was was spotted 217* was not visible. Her transmitter signal was tracked to a location a few miles away where her carcass was found by Tracking Intern Jess Thompson. Richard noted that the recovery site was not the mortality site. The carcass has gone for necropsy to the National Wildlife Heath Center in Madison, WI.
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
Everyone knows that the moon is made of green cheese, so in my opinion every day should be Green Jay Awareness Day.
(And yes, I'm in a cage at the Audubon Zoo. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.)
(And yes, I'm in a cage at the Audubon Zoo. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.)
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
Come on! We were lobbying for a National Bluebird Awareness Day, but those friggin' House Sparrows sabotaged us.
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
I'll celebrate by changing my tune from "What cheer" to "What jeer."
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
We're hope hope hoping we'll make it to Florida well before the blue moon.
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
It's not fair. They get a whole month just because some yokel decided to call a second full moon in a calendar month a "blue moon"? How about every one of those gray days???
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
I think I'll celebrate by looking resplendent.
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
Who cares about Blue Jays? I celebrate blue moons because of the extra illumination those full moons give for finding mice.
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
Honey, I don't care if it's National Predator Awareness Month! I celebrate every day!
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
Celebrate? Forget it! I migrated a couple of thousand miles to get the heck away from those noisy jerks!
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
I'm keeping the heck out of their way. Those Blue Jay beaks pack a wallop!
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
I'm hoping to have one for breakfast every single day. You know what we say about Blue Jays. Once in the morning does it!
How are you celebrating National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
I'm not. I think Laura Erickson should have declared months with blue moons "National Great Blue Heron Awareness Month." Blue Jays? Blech. Who needs em?
Monday, November 30, 2009
Heads up! National Blue Jay Awareness Month starts TOMORROW!
This December has a blue moon--that means there are going to be two full moons during the calendar month! And back in 1987, Laura Erickson pronounced any month with a blue moon "National Blue Jay Awareness Month"! She'll be focusing on us all month on her radio program, and trying to take photos (but even during NBJAM, we Blue Jays don't like to be too cooperative about photos). She'll also be setting out special treats at her bird feeder, like peanuts, just for us! Now that's the kind of celebration I like! National Blue Jay Awareness Month happens just once in a blue moon, so let's party!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Ever wonder how I can suck fluid through such a tiny straw?
Read this great article in the New York Times to find out how we hummingbirds do it!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Toronto is now requiring all new construction to be made with bird safe windows!!! Check it out!
Think I should make an appearance at the Sax-Zim BIrding Festival?
I don't know what I'll be doing on Valentine's Day, but I bet a lot of my friends will be at the Sax-Zim Birding Festival. We love birder-watching. It's fun to grab a mole or vole or any ol' thing and eat it in front of a gawking crowd. February 12-14, 2010.
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