10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood. This is my first season with the ranch, and I’m very excited to being putting some of my theories about nest cams into practice.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2014
The state of Montana is very firm on the subject of spotted knapweed, and the closely related diffuse knapweed and Russian knapweed. Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Whether there is one Sandhill Crane in a camas field in Montana or 1,000 in a flock on their wintering grounds, they put the charismatic AND the mega in charismatic megafauna. When ground sloths and Titanis disappear, adapt; when humans and their strange accessories appear, adapt. I’ve never seen a crane dance.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2013
When you move on to Montana, you discover that there are worse things that one species of tiny screaming mammal tricking you each year as you try to cope with an influx of songbirds and a winterized memory bank that contains only Black-capped Chickadees and Dark-eyed Juncos (and only about half their calls at that.) You sigh and move on.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. Meanwhile, a birder from Montana who happened to be watching the Magnificent Pirate next to me, was shouting the magic words, “Life Bird!” Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
She has a master’s degree in science from the University of Montana, and is the author, as mentioned above, of Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region (Grand Canyon Association, 2007), recipient of many awards including the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award for Nature and the Environment.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2012
Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
194 
Let's personalize your content