Birds
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The Young Birder’s Guide
One of the challenges to introducing youth to watching birds is the lack of age appropriate reference materials, such as field guides. That has just changed with the release of The Young Birder’s Guide: to the birds of eastern North America, the latest in the Peterson Field Guide series. Written by Bill Thompson III, he
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Follow the leader
This morning, as I was sitting in the office, I heard a Raven (Corvus corax) calling from the client side deck. I got up and looked out the dining room to see three magnificent Ravens, crests erect and calling, walking along the deck rail, following each other. As each reached the end of the rail
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#71 – The quotable I and The Bird
"One only has to consider the life force packed tight into that puff of feathers to lay the mind wide open to the mysteries – the order of things, the why and the beginning. As we contemplate that sanderling, there by the shining sea, one question leads inevitably to another, and all questions come full
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Windchill advisory
Two days before "Spring" it is freaky cold in the High Arctic. It is -39C today, with a stiff wind. A very stiff wind. Driving around running errands today I noticed two things about the Ravens in town. Every Raven I saw was doing one of two things. They were either hunkered down in the
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A reminder – I and the Bird #71
Just a quick reminder that deadline for submissions to the best carnival of birds or birding, I and The Bird, is tomorrow. Send your posts to me at Clareleah AT qiniq DOT com by supper time tomorrow for inclusion. If you’re one of my regular readers (Hi mom!) and blog, consider sending in a (wild)
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In which Clare actually gets out of the House and goes bird watching with another person
One of my current clients is a biologist, whose work includes the Rankin Inlet Peregrine Project, which has seen some 900 Peregrine Falcons banded since 1981 in one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind. He was the first non-inuit client of ours to know that Kiggavik is inuktitut for Gyrfalcon, and our conversation
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A splash of Blue
Lately I’ve been missing flashes of blue in my landscape. There are blues of course, I’m looking out on a beautiful blue sky, at night the deepening dark turns incredible shades of blue turning to indigo before the black of the night. But I’m longing for those bright flashes of blue, that appear on feathered
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Finding Your Wings
Like many people who like to observe birds, I’m largely self-taught. Identifying birds takes a rather complex skill set, and it is the rare individual who grasps them in the first instance. Often bird watching or birding grows from encounters with birds, be it at a feeder or on a walk, and the question "Hmm,
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I and the Bird Film Festival
Ahh, the Red Carpet, the celebrities, the paparazzi (lots and lots of paparazzi)… Tai Haku, over at Earth Wind and Water, offers us an Back to the Movies edition of this the 70th version of I and the Bird. It is filled with stars, and as always the stars are birds, the best posts
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Okay, snap quiz everyone
The 69th installment of I and the Bird is up at Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted). The incomparable GrrlScientist has put together a fine collection of the best Bird posts currently in the blogosphere. And, being an Academic, she also included a snap quiz… Go, read the posts, take the quiz. Oh yeah, did