Get out of my nest! – 357, Franklin’s gulls [juv.], Heron Lake, Minn, 6-14-99 (glass plate negative) This young Franklin’s Gull nesting on Heron Lake in Jackson County, MN doesn’t seem too eager to have a visitor. The hand reaching…
To continue the theme of alliteration that began with “Friday Flora,” starting today, and each subsequent second day of the standard work week, we will feature a “Tuesday Tweet” that profiles anything and everything ornithological. Bird observation checklists, bird banding…
After weeks of rain in Minnesota, the sun is out on the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus! These birds are as shocked as we are… – From the glass plate negative collection, Bell Museum of Natural History records….
On June 5, 1912 (101 years ago today) Frances S. Davidson wrote in his notebook, “cloudy, cool. West wind,” and then began a checklist of birds observed from the “fields” in Annandale, MN. Davidson started a Daily Catalogue of Birds…