Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
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Johnston. We are near Lew Clarkson Park and back up to the Beaver Creek Natural Resource Area.
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Birds at my feeder: tufted titmouse, red belly wood pecker, Downey wood pecker, gold finches, nut hatch, robin, red headed woodpecker, blue jay and cardinal. fortunate to have tuffy. se Iowa is about as north it gets in winter.
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Pretty much grounded and in a walking boot so no birding walkabouts for the time being. Frustrated.
Did drive to the Mpls MSP airplane view parking lot the other day in hopes of spying a Snowy Owl. One had been reported there. Struck out. Bummed since I have never seen a snowy. One was spotted as far south as Johnson County in Iowa this month.
Interesting group at the parking lot on Saturday, lot was pretty full and an equal mix of plane watchers and birders. Guess I didn't know plane spotting was such a big deal. Folks were all jazzed up seeing a Kalitta Air 747 (never heard of this freight company).
Did drive to the Mpls MSP airplane view parking lot the other day in hopes of spying a Snowy Owl. One had been reported there. Struck out. Bummed since I have never seen a snowy. One was spotted as far south as Johnson County in Iowa this month.
Interesting group at the parking lot on Saturday, lot was pretty full and an equal mix of plane watchers and birders. Guess I didn't know plane spotting was such a big deal. Folks were all jazzed up seeing a Kalitta Air 747 (never heard of this freight company).
Santa gave me a Snowy Owl today. I had never seen one before. Maybe I should have asked for a something closer than 400 feet way behind airport security fencing but t was still cool to finally see one and made for a fun Christmas present.
Kalitta's make their money in air freight spend it in the NHRA they run in top fuel.
First owl of 2025 was a good one. One of two Long-eared Owls that were nestled into the dense branches of a tamarack tree.
Well, poop. Been seeing all of these Boreal Owl photos from northern Minnesota. Seems to be a bit of an eruption year with people seeing these small nocturnal owls in the daytime, mostly from county roads. Couldn't get up last week for bunch of reasons.
Thinking I might have a 1.5 day window starting tomorrow that I might squeeze in before relative visits. So, of course, I go look at the eBird sighting map I looked at last week and it's all been deleted, so, other than memory of general area, I've got a lot less to go on. At some point someone local within eBird in Minnesota decided this week it was too sensitive to share. Can still maybe drive those general areas and hope to get lucky or piggyback on someone seeing something. Some chronic health stuff sort of already limits me to half days so thinking any shot is better than not shot.
Thinking I might have a 1.5 day window starting tomorrow that I might squeeze in before relative visits. So, of course, I go look at the eBird sighting map I looked at last week and it's all been deleted, so, other than memory of general area, I've got a lot less to go on. At some point someone local within eBird in Minnesota decided this week it was too sensitive to share. Can still maybe drive those general areas and hope to get lucky or piggyback on someone seeing something. Some chronic health stuff sort of already limits me to half days so thinking any shot is better than not shot.
I've been meaning to check out the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, Minnesota. They have a number of redheaded woodpeckers there and am wondering if they overwintered. Think it is hit and miss depending on acorns.
It's Cardinal feeding frenzy at our house. Couple dozen. 5 Blue jays not around last winter. They dominate the food area.
I started putting an ear of corn 20 or 25 feet away from our feeders and the Blue Jays leave the feeders alone and knaw on the corn. Never seen that before.
Holy Cow....that's a beautiful picture.
My mom hasn't had many cardinals this year so far.
Saw this red tailed hawk at a job site in Des Moines on the 10th story of a building. Thought I’d share these cool photos.
The last threeish years the cranes have come back to WI earlier and earlier.
It used to be around the first week of March that I'd start to hear them and last year it was the first week of February so I'm curious how it goes this year.
It used to be around the first week of March that I'd start to hear them and last year it was the first week of February so I'm curious how it goes this year.
