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Poop Week was a lot of fun around here, but for some people it never seems to end. A reader contacted me with a serious bird feeder problem: I wanted to get your professional opinion. I’m an avid bird watcher/studier/lover. I mounted 11 six-gallon bird feeders on my deck and have managed to snap some [...]

When my friends over at YourBirdOasis sent me a super squirrel-proof bird feeder to review, I had to think about who I knew who could really put the device to the test. After all, I have my local white squirrels well in hand. My good buddy Seth, on the other hand, does not. So here’s [...]

On my last beat post for 10,000 Birds I talked about how to avoid European Starlings at your seed feeder.  You can also avoid them at your suet feeder too. It’s not a one hundred percent solution, but it works to keep most starlings, grackles and crows from the feeder. Let’s watch this video of [...]

Feeder fillers everywhere, we salute you! From Suet balls to seed cakes, not forgetting fresh water everyday, you maintain a vital lifeline for birds and animals when the weather gets tough. Of course nobody expects any thanks or praise for this beneficence, just the joy of seeing birds visiting your feeder and  surviving through ’til spring is [...]

Once again this winter the Forest Park irregulars, a devoted group of birders who spend far too much time in Forest Park, are maintaining two feeding stations.  Seeing as it is a sunny day and Daisy agreed to let me go outside for a bit, I headed over to the waterhole, which serves as one [...]

How was your GBBC? Mine wasn’t very productive, though I did manage to keep track of dietary intake of four rather dull goldfinches for the duration of the count period. The most notable point about my 2009 Great Backyard Bird Count is that I finally have a backyard in which to count birds! In the [...]

After my exhausting birding adventures with Mike, Charlie, Jean, and Patrick, which will soon be described in great detail, I’m sure, I had Mike drop me off at, no, not my apartment, but Forest Park! The sun was out and the afternoon was still young. My energy level was at a pretty low ebb though, [...]