Comments on: Notes from the North Woods https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:35:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Ben Zvan https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538015 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:35:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538015 Yellow bellied sap sucker? Them’s good eating.

]]> By: Barn Owl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538014 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:17:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538014 Sounds like a great way to spend the day/weekend. Alas, I have no cabin (nor any type of second abode), but at least I have friends with a ranch west of town, where it is a few degrees cooler than in the ‘burbs. I tried to take a photo of two Crested Caracaras just off the ranch road, but they flew away and I only caught the mile marker and one tail. Also saw or heard the following birds:

– Vermilion Flycatcher
– Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
– Purple Martin
– Barn Swallow
– Red-winged Blackbird
– Wild Turkey
– Northern Bobwhite
– Sharp-shinned Hawk
– Turkey Vulture
– Black Vulture
– Black-bellied Whistling Duck
– Inca Dove
– Mourning Dove

Always see loads of Grackles, Barn Swallows, and a Common Nighthawk or two when I walk the dog just after sunset in the ‘burbs. Lots of Mexican Free-tailed Bats right now as well.

]]> By: David Lee https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538013 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:33:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538013 That’s a lot of birdage.

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538012 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:10:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538012 “What time did you get up?” reminds me of another phrase I heard when visiting just north of the twin cities: “You going with?”

Maybe there’s a propensity for keeping the preposition but dropping the rest of the phrase when it’s supposed to be commonly understood.

I never was much of a fisherman, but the birding seems to be really good up there. I may have to visit again soon.

]]> By: Tristram Brelstaff https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538011 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:36:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538011

7. common tern (a good one)

One good tern deserves another.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538010 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:19:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538010 Stephanie: When you drive out of the twin cities to the north, you pretty much drive out of Egret land (this is the “Great Egret” Ardea alber). For this reason I tend to think of them as city birds because I see them all the time in highway ditches and urban ponds, but then when we leave the city we rarely see them (and if we do it is where they seem to be artificially concentrated.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one on the lake.

Michael: I release them because I want them to live out their lives in the wild unharassed by humans. Except that one time. This is not to say that I don’t occasionally eat them.

]]> By: Michael Spencer https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538009 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:56:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538009 OK, Grego, cipher me this [and fair warning, there is a trap ahead]: why were you catching and releasing?

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538008 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:56:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538008 Yeah, okay. Fair enough. Although I don’t usually get out without seeing a heron either.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538007 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:53:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538007 Right. We also didn’t record the pigeons ….

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538006 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:20:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/12/notes-from-the-north-woods/#comment-538006 You got out of the Cities without seeing an egret? I never manage that.

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