Golden-crowned Kinglet, dead and entangled in some Burdock:
This picture and the story behind can be found here. More about Common Burdock can be found at the Virginia Tech Weed Guide. Common Burdock is an invasive plant introduced from Europe.
In following the lead of Patrick at the Hawk Owl’s Nest I offer here answers to my Birder Survey. Note that many of these are the same as I answered for my DC Area Birder profile at BirdDC:
What state (or country) do you live in? Virginia, USA
How long have you been birding? 4 years
Are you [...]
Some stories just write themselves.
I am playing around with Google’s build your own search feature. It is pretty cool. I am going to stick the search over on the sidebar and keep refining it.
Mine is a Birds, Birding, etc… search. Try it out:
At least now I know that what I (and many others I am sure) have thought all along is in fact true. Namely that it rains more often on the weekends then weekdays. The reason is interesting, weekday pollution that builds up over the course of the week.
A few weeks back there was a flurry of news reports about a new bird species that was found in India, including a post by yours truly. Now we have another report of a new bird species, the Yariguies Brush Finch, this time from Columbia. This bird like the last one is quite colorful. I [...]
Cool stuff: a study where scientists kept some Swainson’s Thrushes in cages for a full year has shown a likely explanation for how migrating birds make up for sleep lost while migrating.
This site has some really awesome pictures of a Red-tail Hawk. This one is my favorite.
I was just looking at a graphical summary of the visits to my blog in the past 12 months. It is quite obvious that I get more traffic in the Spring and in the Fall. Why you ask? Because I post much more frequently in the Spring and Fall due to the biannual bird migrations [...]
[Another Update 9/26/2006] Over at the Stokes Birding Blog there is a nice post that provides more links and details.
[Update 9/26/2006] Here is a link to the article that apparently created this rumor.
It has been almost 2 years since the announcement that there was at least one Ivorybill Woodpecker living in the swamps of Arkansas. [...]