Very cool! Hope I get to see one soon too …. 🙂 Red crossbills still here – for the summer? Red Crossbill madness hits Seattle! (They’re a bird, not a team)
What did you think, BP – that even if you (finally) started paying off the claimants it was going to magically solve the problem? No, your reputation will be toast for many years to come, and it’s well, well deserved!!!!! From Yahoo/AP: Dolphin, turtle deaths a sign of sick Gulf E. Fudd
When you buy beans, remember the birds! – E. Fudd Bird-Friendly Coffee Supports Critical Winter Habitat It’s winter, do you know where your birds are? For many bands of the summer songbird rainbow—Baltimore Orioles (at right), Scarlet Tanagers, and 17 species of warblers—the answer could be Central and South American coffee farms. Forty-two migratory songbird […]
for once a utility does the right thing! From Care2: Wind Energy Company Will Move Turbines To Protect Raptors A wind energy company building a 126-tower wind farm on private land in north-central Montana has agreed to move 25 of the towers farther away from raptor nests. NaturEner and Montana Audubon announced last week that […]
too cool…. E. Fudd Puffin Cam, courtesy of Audubon….there are many other cool live cams here….
That fox is so cute! The eagle is very Zen…. The cats are, well….cats. E. Fudd
from KXLY in Pullman/Moscow: “….Charlie is the oldest living red-tail hawk in the entire world as defined in the longevity records by falconers. His home is Washington State University with the Raptor Club. Calculations have estimated his age to equal about 234 human years….” the rest of the article is here, including a link to […]
with the wussy Seattle ‘snowpocalypse’ of the past couple days, the backyard birds are still hanging in there – a couple pics of a fat robin hanging out in the holly tree, and a swarm of bushtits that hang out on the suet feeders…. E. Fudd
Not sure if i’m the last guy to see this, but it’s very, very cool….for all the right reasons. E. Fudd
yesterday I saw something I’d never seen before. I was crossing the street to see where all these chirping birds I heard were (whether in a big hedge or nearby tree) – and I saw a hummingbird zip out of nowhere. I watched him instead – and I saw something new – he was hovering […]