Three talkers find a listener.
The weather report for American tree sparrows said there would be snow on their tails.
This bald eagle in Park Rapids, Minnesota, was carved with a chainsaw.
A lovely painting of my favorite bird seen at Farm by the Lake (a retreat center) in Bagley,Minnesota.
A swan on wheels at Farm By The Lake retreat center in Bagley, Minnesota.
A Minnesota winter survival kit.
I live on this road. Actually, I live alongside this road.
The sun’s rays dance in the icy treetops.
“Look deep into my ice,” said the willow.
When a winter day gets too warm for me, I go birding on Lake Superior
Do birds fly upside down?
Accipiters consider a bird feeder to be a bird feeder.
Talking about critters on the radio.
Ice. The reason a willow weeps.
Ice caused each dead blade of grass to be reborn as a jewel.
The road was completely snow- and ice- covered. The temperature was 19° and it was misting/raining enough that I had to use my windshield wipers. Yet, I feel like a contest winner.
Nobody move! I’ve lost a contact.
The bills of starlings are turning yellow, a sign of spring.
An American dipper during the rushing water hour.
Another way of looking at winter is by looking at a house finch.
Ice fishing eagles.
This is the corner that spring is just around.
Year of the Bird.
To sleep or shave, that is the question.
A radio show in which I prattle about nature
https://soundcloud.com/kmsu/al-batt-02132018?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email
Chatter, natter and patter about nature on the radio.
https://soundcloud.com/kmsu/al-batt-01-23-2018?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email
Forget Valentine’s Day. It’s National Bird-Feeding Month.
I’m always happy to be paid a visit by a red-winged blackbird.
The red-winged blackbird of winter is no fair-weather friend.
The Eldred Rock Lighthouse in the Lynn Canal south of Haines, Alaska.
Are you going to eat that?
My pilot and copilot were familiar figures.
Telling nature’s stories on the radio.
https://soundcloud.com/kmsu/al-batt-02-06-2018?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email
They wanted it it to be a surprise.
Br’er Fox moves furtively through my yard.
An American tree sparrow comes here to enjoy our winters.
A Peeping Tom rooster pheasant.
One small step for squirrel, one giant leap for squirrelkind.
I petted this porcupine cautiously in Alberta.
Bald eagles are fine swimmers, as this one proved to me on the Chilkat River in Alaska.
It was keeping me company in Haines, Alaska.
Lipping off about nature on the airwaves.
https://soundcloud.com/kmsu/albatt01292018
Nature in the newspaper
And for these seeds we are about to receive.
A squirrel in a cold yoga class.
