I’m a bit of a bird feeding enthusiast, I’ll admit. At last count I had about a half-dozen birdfeeders around …
Tag: birds
A Tale of 3 Air Rifles
About two years ago I got myself the first real air-rifle I’ve ever owned. Farming, particularly livestock farming, is rife …
Minnesota’s bird flu outbreak
You may have read about it in the news, but we’re living right in the middle of it (well, almost) …
Cholcalciferol
We’ve dealt with mice ever since we moved to this farm a few years back. Mice are a bit inconvinent, …
Flyover
I heard a strange bird today, but I couldn’t see anything new roosting in the trees. Then I looked up …
Bad Year for Tree Swallows
Over the past few weeks I’ve been keeping an eye on a few active tree swallow nests in our tree …
Spring means fence, and birds.
We just went out today and drove 12 big fence posts before lunch. We marked the locations for these big …
Bluebirds!
I found these little guys in one of our Tree Swallow Boxes. I guess they didn’t realize it wasn’t a …
Tree Swallow Chicks!
It seems like eons ago that we installed the first few Tree Swallow houses on our new farm. That was …

The swallows have arrived
This morning I noticed a bunch of small birds flitting about over the neighbors pond across the road. After a …