Bird vs. Fish

Ken Euers

As both my partner and I are moving out of our apartments, we have relocated our “home” to an otherwise unoccupied house owned by his family. So, I’ll be spending the foreseeable future in Green Bay. I’m not going to lie, it was nice to change locations and scenery! Even just a long drive was […]

RODE Rec for eBird

Following the recommendations for recording birds, here are some relevant settings. On the main screen, click the microphone button and set the sampling rate to 48000 Create a new recording by clicking the + button Under Settings –> Input, turn off iOS processing

Rare Birds of St. Louis Co. MN – April

No, this isn’t an April fool’s joke! Willow ptarmigan has been spotted in the county historically this month.

Leif Erikson Park

Today, we crossed the bridge to access the trail that goes down to the lake. We walked down behind the outdoor stage and got to the shoreline before continuing to loop back.

Park Point

To keep us from going stir crazy, we’ve been frequenting the park at the end of the point (its namesake). Today, we crossed the dune at the parking lot next to the trail gate. We walked on the beach until the cold wind chased us back to our car.

Satyr Comma

Today marks the emergence of one of Wisconsin’s earliest butterflies from hibernation: the satyr comma! It’s a “little known” butterfly of northern forests. I’d love to see one, and I’m glad to start thinking about butterflies after this long winter.

Farm Roads

We spent our last morning in Arenal on the farm roads. We started the morning by walking down to white hawk villa, but backtracked after not finding much activity. On the trail just past Phil’s villa, we were pretty excited to be able to confidently separate 2 rufous mourners from the pihas we’d seen the […]

Arenal Observatory Lodge

Today was our only full day in Arenal, so we made it count! We were awakened by a common pauraque singing in the “nautical twilight” hours, which would bookend our day. We got to the observatory lodge at 6 AM and made our way on the “orange trails” to the garden. There, we saw our […]

Arenal

Today was our journey to Arenal! Once we got to Nuevo Arenal, we got our lifer palm tanagers. Downtown, we finally got good looks at gray-breasted martins. Once we arrived at our accommodations, Paul spotted our lifer Passerini’s tanagers and long-tailed tyrant. I spotted our lifer piratic flycatcher. Then, we went into El Castillo for […]

Santa Rosa National Park

Today we decided it was worth it to get to Santa Rosa early, and we weren’t disappointed! I finally got good looks at the banded wrens we briefly glimpsed the day before. I was also delighted by the time we were able to spend with yellow-olive flycatchers. Not only did we have great looks at […]