Long Meadow Gun Club

Tuesday Tweet: University Bird Class

Associate Curator and Director were not the only titles that Thomas Sadler Roberts held during his tenure at the University of Minnesota. Beginning in 1916, just one year after he started at the U, Roberts also added the title of…


Bad Hair Day

Having a bad hair day? – American Bittern, one young, June 2, 1927, Long Meadow Gun Club Don’t worry, you have company! – American Bitterns, four young, June 2, 1927, Long Meadow Gun Club (from the glass plate negatives in…


Tuesday Tweet: Let’s talk turkey…

In remaining completely predictable by staying in theme with seasons and holidays, you all were safe to assume that the topic of the Tuesday Tweet during Thanksgiving week would be TURKEYS. It’s a “gimme,” so to speak. As I geared…


Wild Animal Wednesday

– Painted turtle showing eggs, Long Meadow Gun Club, June, 8, 1900 – Painted turtle and eggs, Long Meadow Gun Club, June 8, 1900 – Painted turtle digging hole for nest, Long Meadow Gun Club, 1900 – Painted turtle…



Tuesday Tweet: You Yellow-bellied Sapsucker!

Here are a few images of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (no, I’m not being mean, that is really the name!) According to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Guide, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, “perch upright on trees, leaning on their tails like other…


Extreme Sports: 1900

– Taking photograph of Chipping Sparrow nest in oak tree with reflex camera, Thomas Sadler Roberts in tree. Long Meadow Gun Club, June, 1900. (From the Bell Museum glass plate negative collection)…