birding, photography and living with pet birds
Posted in sparrow on Feb 27th, 2011
White-crowned Sparrows are very common in Utah in the winter. I usually hear them before I see them. Cornell’s bird page has an audio clip and the last three seconds are consistent with the noise I’m always hearing. In the picture above the bird on the left is a juvenile. The juveniles don’t have white [...]
Posted in cockatiel on Feb 23rd, 2011
It’s very important to keep your cockatiels occupied with toys. Birds need to be stimulated. Trevor has taken an interest in the toy below. Can you see Trevor eyeing it? The toy is a bunch of shredded paper stuck through two holes. On another side of the box there is a wooden block and a [...]
Posted in kestrel on Feb 20th, 2011
There have been a lot of kestrels around this winter. There was one birding trip where I counted six in the same trip. This guy was not pleased about being disturbed. He was trying to blend in with his perch. They are so good at hunting. I see the Northern Harriers flying around a lot, [...]
Posted in seabird on Feb 19th, 2011
I write a lot about Western and Clark’s Grebes. And in the summer we get Eared Grebes. Well in the winter we get Pied-billed Grebes. Aren’t they cute? In Utah they’re very shy birds so it took months of going to Farmington Bay before I got good shots like the one below. Ironically I got [...]
Posted in cockatiel on Feb 15th, 2011
Trevor: “So I was listening to Rush Limbaugh the other day when he said that there is no scientific evidence to support the proposition that eating fruits and vegetables prolongs your life. And his so called evidence for this proposition is that Jack LaLane died. Jack LaLane died at 96! Plus, we’ve seen study after [...]
Posted in eagle on Feb 13th, 2011
Yesterday was Bald Eagle Day at Farmington Bay where they poison the carp and the eagles come to eat. Yum. The eagles starting coming in weeks ahead of schedule. Wait, are you thinking “Oh no, not another Bald Eagle post”? Well, let me show you some of the other things I’ve seen in the past [...]
Posted in rail on Feb 12th, 2011
Yay! The internet is back. I missed you internet. There is nothing like coming home after working for 12 hours and being able to watch television and surf the internet. Yet another reason why I have not been blogging consistently. I suck. . Coots, coots, coots. If there is any bird that I can consistently [...]
Posted in waxwing on Feb 6th, 2011
Sorry for the lack of posts. I haven’t taken a day off in weeks and even when I’ve managed to slip away to Farmington Bay for a few hours, it’s been raining, the inversion was so bad it hurt to breathe the air or I couldn’t find any birds. So boo to you winter. Boo [...]
Audrey spends a lot of time inside his cage. Sometimes the other birds will push him around if they’re all on top of the cage together. Also, Audrey likes to sleep at night inside the cage. But Conner wants to be near Audrey. You can see Conner in the above picture on the bottom, looking [...]