Do you know that red headed woodpeckers store food in the bark of trees? The red headed woodpecker, one of the birds featured in our new book Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds, is a quite interesting bird that seeks out dead or dying trees and stumps for nesting sites. The red headed woodpecker is [...]
Audubon’s Ten Ways to Make a Difference for Migrating Birds has great tips to ensure birds stay safe. According to Audubon, perils include bright lights and tall buildings, cats and toxic lawns. I like tip number 4: Prevent window collisions. Make sure birds can see (and avoid) your windows by putting up screens, closing drapes [...]
Have you heard about The Big Year with Steve Martin? It looks like a fabulous birding movie that corresponds well with the recent release of our new bird book, Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds. The Big Year stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. It tells the story of a [...]
As our new book, Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds, features a pileated woodpecker, I want to share this article, “Woodpecker recovers from collision with window: Animals in the News“, with you. It’s heartwarming to see the photo of the recovered pileated woodpecker in the article. According to the story, a pileated woodpecker [...]
With our new bird book coming soon, I thought you’d enjoy these bird feeder tips: “Eric Sharp: Use different kinds of bird feeders to draw a variety of feathered friends“. The suet cake feeder the author mentions in his article is a good choice. My parents have suet in a cage hanging on wire and [...]
Below are some great bird watching tips for beginners, and experts too, courtesy of Birding.com: Hint #1: You need a field guide for your area. A field guide is a book with pictures of the birds and tips for identifying them. The best book for new birders in the United States is the Peterson Field Guide [...]
Did you want to learn more about woodpeckers? Here’s an excellent article, “ALWAYS IN SEASON: No matter the weather, woodpeckers stay at work“. It’s interesting to learn about red-bellied woodpeckers from the article, and woodpecker facts. I learned that the bones of woodpeckers’ skulls are extra thick, and the muscles of their necks extra resilient. [...]
This preview video below from the hummingbird film, “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air”, from PBS, is very cool. At times it uses slow motion to show what incredible athletes hummingbirds are. They are one of the smallest warm-blooded creatures on the planet, but they are also among the fastest. Video Link “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air”: Preview, PBS Watch Full [...]
Not being a coffee drinker, I hadn’t given much though to shade grown coffee, birds and conservation. The article “Bird-friendly coffee” enlightened me to the threats birds face from coffee plantations. Robert Rice, a scientist with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, says researchers have documented steep declines in migratory bird species in recently, mainly from habitat [...]
Wild birds in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are growing deformed beaks at unprecedented rates according to scientists. According to the article ”Tweaked Beaks: How Bird Deformities Help Flag Undetected Toxins“, the bird beak deformity is known as avian keratin disorder, which may signal a greater environmental issue. This bird beak deformity is life threatening as it makes it nearly [...]
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