Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Sax-Zim Bog Winter Birding Festival

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Can you believe it's only 2 weeks until December 1st? I've been ignoring all those holiday ads on TV lately, but realized this morni...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sunday Deer Hunting

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SUNSET FROM MY DEERSTAND Today I watched sunrise and sunset from my deerstand. If you've never done it, believe me it's something pr...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Milestone Friday

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I achieved a couple of milestones today. The 2 full birdseed bins shown below (100 lbs each) represent the first milestone: I finally broke ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

More Evidence of Backyard Bambi's

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Every night lately we've been seeing at least 5 deer in the backyard (a doe and 4 fawns). They've been munching apples and chowing d...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Knitted Mitten Class

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Yesterday (Saturday) was the first of two classes I'm teaching for learning to knit mittens using 4 double-pointed needles. The pattern ...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

The View from My Deer Stand - Part 2

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Spent another deerless afternoon in the woods today, but I'm not complaining because the outside temp was almost 60 degrees! Pretty unu...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

The View from My Deer Stand

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Well, after a gentle nudge from my dear old Mom (who's experiencing some blog deprivation symptoms) I will be making an effort to become...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Greetings from the Neglectful Blogger

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Sorry, I've been kind a neglectful blogger lately! For some strange reason, I really thought I'd have more time for blogging once th...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Have you read this book yet?

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Are you a Birdwatcher's Digest subscriber? If so, perhaps you read Julie Zickefoose's recent review of the book " Life List ...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

You Know You're From Minnesota.....

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You Know You're From Minnesota When...... ......Weather is 80% of your conversation is it any wonder when we have weather like this? ......
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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Oh No, SNOW!!

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This blog post is dedicated to all my southern friends and relations--wish you were here! :-) Here's one my frozen-solid backyard bird...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

A Finished Project & Miscellaneous Photos

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Here in Minnesota it's gone from being a dry and summery September to November-like weather--been rainy and chilly here for almost a wee...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Is She the Last One?

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On this chilly and rainy October 2nd, I was amazed to see this lone little hummingbird still sipping nectar from my deck feeder. I wonder i...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Fiber Therapy

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It's been a particularly crappy week at work, so this morning I decided to stop at my local yarn shop on the way home for a little bit o...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Eurasian Collared Dove!

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OK, this is another pretty crappy picture (taken through the kitchen window screen), but I was thrilled to finally confirm that the big dove...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

The National Parks

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Tonight is the premier of The National Parks: America's Best Idea on PBS. Finally, the night I've been waiting months for--ever sin...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

New Yard Birds

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Yesterday was one of the birdiest days in the backyard that I've had the pleasure to enjoy in a long time. I got home from work and spen...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Window Collision

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I saw this big smudge on my basement sliding glass door last week and when I looked a little bit closer I realized it was from a bird collis...
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