If you like Critter Geek, you definitely want to follow the blog of Julie Zickefoose, author of one of my favorite books, Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods.
Recently, she’s been posting about her visit to a goat dairy.
In the Milking Parlor
Goat #43
The Authors of It All
I could really get into [...]
No, it’s not used to observe Rhinos…it’s used to observe Rhinoceros Auklet nesting tunnels!
Learn more at Los Farallones, the weblog kept by Point Reyes Bird Observatory researchers happily marooned on the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco.
Speaking of sea birds and the Bay Area, there have been an unusual number of sightings of Horned Puffins [...]
Our local newspaper has an article about one of my favoritie critter geeks, Mariah Moutanos, Dog rescuer:
In her hometown of Ukiah, 15-year-old Mariah Mountanos has built a reputation as an animal-loving girl on a mission. And it’s a reputation growing far beyond the borders of Northern California.
A volunteer at the Mendocino County animal shelter since [...]
The PBS program Nature recently featured an episode on the aerodynamic abilities of raptors called Raptor Force. You may want to check TV listings to see if the show is being repeated in your area.
The show includes amazing footage of Peregrine Falcons in their stoop, and footage of riding along with a bird via [...]
There have been a lot of wonderful photos posted to the Flickr pool. Here are the three most recent:
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On Thursday night we went to the first Third Thursdays Speaker Series talk at Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO). Thursday’s talk was PRBO and the Farallon Islands: Four decades of marine research and conservation, given by Russ Bradley, a PRBO Farallon Biologist. Bradley spends 17 weeks a year on the islands, 28 [...]
I decided that the new year was a good time to look at the list of web sites and podcasts that I follow regularly, and prune that list to the ones that are the best of the best. I haven’t been very disciplined about that pruning, but I did identify one podcast that’s on [...]
I can’t resist a response to Kathy Sierra’s Five(ish) Things I Don’t Know About You. And at the end, you’ll find a question I want you to answer!
1) What’s the most fun work you’ve ever done, and why?
The volunteer work I’ve done as a hawk watcher and telemetrist with Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. [...]
A scientist, artist, and activist, Natalie Jeremijenko challenges us to think critically about our relationship to animals and the environment. What I especially like about her work is the way she embraces and uses technology; her way of getting “back to nature” doesn’t mean trying to turn back the clock in some luddite [...]
It’s not often that the death of a television personality makes me want to weep, but losing Steve Irwin makes me feel exactly that.
Irwin always got a lot of criticism, and you’ll hear more in days to come. What made him so engaging was his delight in and love of the animals he worked [...]
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