I’m excited to learn about the proposed Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Wisconsin and northeast Illinois. I travel around this beautiful area when I visit one of my favorite places, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The proposed Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge will be located between Milwaukee and Chicago. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, if a refuge [...]
Who was Roger Tory Peterson and how did he manage, at the age of 25, to revolutionize birdwatching? Watch the video to learn the answers!
Bird watchers coast to coast are invited to take part in the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, Friday, February 12, through Monday, February 15, 2010. Participants in the free event will join tens of thousands of volunteers counting birds in their own backyards, local parks or wildlife refuges. “Taking part in the Great Backyard Bird [...]
Gather your kids! Look at these neat photos inside a hummingbird’s nest. You’ll see amazing photos of baby hummingbirds hatched and more. Enjoy!
This is a nice story from the The News-Gazette.com. A sludge-covered female eagle got herself out from the bank of a retention pond in Illinois, but was not able to fly away. Fortunately Naturalist Gary Wilford got the call about the injured eagle on the Danville Sanitary District grounds. “It was pretty exciting,” said Wilford, who [...]
Blogger Chris Petrak’s Tales of Birding blog includes loon photos and an interesting post about the Common Loon. Petrak says “Eerie. Haunting. Mysterious. Other worldly. Carrying across the still water in the mistiness of early morning or the dimming light of evening, the song of the loon is the song of the wild and untamed.” “…Now add [...]
I read the article, “Spying on bluebirds in Pennsylvania“, in The Intelligencer and thought you’d enjoy it. It seems the Pennsylvania Game Commission has a live video camera feed from a bluebird nest box at their headquarters! To view the live feed, visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission website and click on the “Bluebird Live-Feed” icon in the center [...]
The Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp design contest, hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, will feature the ringneck in 2010-11. Artists from across the country are eligible to enter. The winning art will be printed on the next year’s Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp, which also can serve as an Oklahoma waterfowl hunting license. Duck stamp sales [...]
I came across a Web page about common loons from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. It’s full of interesting information about the common loon: “Because the loon’s legs are so far back on its body and because its body is so long, loons have trouble taking-off. Have you ever seen a loon “running” across a lake? [...]
Want to age well? Try backyard bird watching. The article “Aging Well: Bird Watching keeps minds active” states, “The vast range of experiences and learning opportunities involved in observing and identifying birds, added to the excitement of sharing those experiences with others and being outdoors, is attracting more and more people, particularly aging baby boomers, [...]
