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A friend of mine, Scott Fraser got a recording of a black-billed cuckoo singing in his backyard.  Click here to listen to it.  You will hear his guinea fowl in the background, as well as an eastern towhee singing “Drink Your Teaaaaaaaa!”

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This week was a tad frustrating.  We had received a note from our honey bee supplier that bees would ship sometime the week of April 27.  I kept all of my plans soft expect to dash off an hive our packages of new bees.  The calls never came and when fellow ( Read more... )

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Don’t forget that there’s still time to enter the Birdorable Guest Blogging Contest.  Get those blog entries in soon.

Hey! We’re having our May Birds and Beers at Coon Rapids Dam this Thursday, May 7, 2009.  The bonus, Mark Newstrom is going to ( Read more... )

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A reader has submitted help with id.  Since I don’t live in Missouri nor attend many baseball games, I thought one of you readers could help our girl Veronica.  Here is her description:

I hope you don’t mind me asking you for help, but but I have been ( Read more... )

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The Boreal Songbird Initiative, along with other environmental groups like Bird Studies Canada, Nature Canada, the David Suzuki Foundation, among others created a petition called “Save our Boreal Birds” a little over a year ago. This petition will be sent to the Prime ( Read more... )

http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2009/04/long-eared-owl-short-eared-owl-hybrid/

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I read the coolest article today from the journal Ontario Birds by the Ontario Field Ornithologists by Kristen Keyes and Michel Gooselin and learned that sometimes you can find something really cool buried in a drawer of old museum specimens ( Read more... )

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Where are my bees?

I take comfort in a singing western meadowlark, back lit by the setting sun.


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I am in such a holding pattern at the moment!  One of the fun things about Facebook and Twitter is that I can see in status updates and tweets, but this spring, I realize how painfully slow migration seem when you live in the northern US.  At first, I was excited ( Read more... )

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