Birdchick Podcast #171 Owl Whisperer

Have you checked out the web series? You have until the end of the day on June 23, 2014 to send in your guess! Watch all 7 episodes (it's only about an hour and fifteen minutes to watch the whole thing). Sad tale of a Canadian woman who stopped on a highway to help ducklings and ended up causing a fatal crash has been convicted of criminal negligence causing death. She could get a life sentence.

Guy uses a Swiffer to rid his home of a big, scary screech-owl (warning, language).

After 40 minutes of hysterics, it did neither of us good. We finally compromised and I was able to get him (or her) out using a Swiffer. The Owl Whisperer - Swifferer? See part one, "Owl in my House" - http://youtu.be/vxe1WHCjfZE

Birdchick Podcast #168: Bird Pictures

Here's a link to an Audubon article that ticked me off because at first glance I thought it made digiscoping look like a joke. But it brings up a bigger questions of what is a photo and what is art. Examples of photos that have been manipulated green heron contest winner or blue heron and bald eagle photo. Here's an article in Audubon about what qualifies as natural as they had to disqualify a great photo because it was technically manipulated.



Birdchick Podcast #165: Owls Again and Eggs

It's World Sparrow Day soon! Please everyone, let's just be reasonable about snowy owls? Maybe? Latest Project Snowstorm update.

Swarovski Optik contest for SLC binoculars. Have a good campfire story?

Endangered kakapo accidentally crushes her egg but wildlife rehabbers fix it with tape and glue.

Photographer Jim Neiger pleads guilty to harassing endangered snail kites.

Funny duck story.

Pelican with a GoPro on its beak.

Places I've been recently: Klamath Falls Winter Wings Bird Festival and Alamo Inn Bed and Breakfast.

We talked about a print that I purchase from a  "tea bag lady" here is here site Orphan Girl Fine Art. Here's the print I got.


Birdchick Podcast #164: More Owl Controversies!

Mya Rose Craig is an 11 year old lister...she's already hit 3000 and has optics sponsorship. Now that is what I call an upper echelon birder. Because, you know, birders don't have enough to argue about, here's a totally unexpected development. It's legal in Wisconsin to trip snowy owls for falconry...and some guy did. Boom! I wrote up my thoughts about it over at 10000 Birds.

There's a cool contest over at Birds & Blooms for a free trip to the Biggest Week in Birding.

Audubon President David Yarnold on the Colbert Report to talk about culling barred owls in favor of endangered spotted owls.

Interesting behavior documented by Corey Finger of what appears to be a lesbian pairing of Nanday parakeets.

In some excellent news, the wind turbine project on Lake Erie has been halted. There are good places for wind farms but a major migratory corridor like that one isn't one of them.

Dudes, it's an albatross live web cam in Hawaii--perfect escape from this long hard, Winterfell like winter.

ABA announces this year's award winners and my friend Laura Erickson is one of them!

Hey, did you see that we are doing another contest on the blog in the form of a web series? Check out this trailer--you might win a Swarovski Spotting Scope this spring!!

 

Birdchick.com & Swarovski Optik North America have teamed up to make web series with birding and photography tips. What's unique about this web series is that it is also a puzzle. The birds in each episode are a clue to the theme of the series.