Important family concerns are keeping me from birding and posting. Hopefully in the near future I’ll be able to get out again. Sorry for the pause. Please pray for Molly and me.
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Attack of the Peanut Butter Snatchers!
I have served as a volunteer for 10+ years at Sax-Zim Bog, but I have never seen the famous Admiral Road Pine Martens. I just don’t have the patience to sit and wait at the feeders for their appearance. A few weeks back I decided it was time to rectify that omission. With my trusty Jif Peanut Butter in tow, I drove up to the Bog from my Duluth home. As instructed I smeared peanut butter all over the branches and logs. NOOOOOO! I was foiled by the Attack of the Peanut Butter Snatchers. I am still zero for ten years.
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Note: Although Pine Martens LOVE peanut butter, so do Gray / Canada Jays and Chickadees.
Snow! Great Gray Owl!
It finally snowed Friday night, and then yesterday morning I found a Great Gray Owl which auditioned for the role as next season’s “Christmas Star” at the top of the tree. Should I hire the owl?
When it heard the position was already taken by “an angel”, it got upset and left!
I was actually up in Sax-Zim Bog, but not on one of the two most popular roads (Admiral and McDavitt). Instead I enjoyed a private experience with the owls. In fact, the second owl I watched let me know I did NOT belong. LOL!! (see the sign … on a gate somewhere in the Bog one should NOT go through)
The day’s excursion was also nice given my 10th Anniversary Theme for January, #365Birds01White. Snow Flocked Trees (and signs).