we met some hungry birds on our snow shoe hike through tahoe meadows on mount rose.

I just finished my calendar for 2011! Aside from a few little screen burning issues it was smooth gocco printing. Now I just have to find out where I can buy more gocco supplies...
You can buy the calendar here.

It was so much fun canoeing out to a great blue heron rookery on a swampy section of the Mississippi. As soon as we started getting close to the nesting area we could hear what sounded like cackling (the sound the baby heron's make when they're hungry) coming from within the forest. I'd never heard anything like it. Not only did we get to see the nesting herons, but we also saw a beaver, 2 muskrats, an osprey, and a family of grebes.

it's been fun watching the robin's nest in the tree in our backyard.

I tried riding with Matt on the douglas trail but it was one of those windy days where I felt like I was pedaling hard yet hardly moving...so I let Matt ride ahead and took my time riding home, stopping every time I saw a cute birds nest. It seemed like there were birds nests in almost every tree near the trail, and I want to go back later in April/May when I may get to see eggs, or remnants of eggs left behind...

Based on an intersection between the Tit family of birds and... y'know :)
The bearded t(w)it!

When I go on walks in the morning I am always looking out for cardinals, but they usually fly away just as I see them. Today though, I got to see 6...and they let me take their pictures.