Sweating the Small Stuff

It has been pointed out to me that I haven't written a blog for a long time. The reason has to do partly with laziness, but also partly ...

Well. at the beginning of 2020 the pandemic began, and Cheryl and I went into lockdown. We were told not to travel anywhere, so we didn'...

 I was one of those kids who carried every creeping thing home and made a cage for it. I don't mean bunnies and baby birds, I mean black...

The third of the hummingbirds I am discussing, the Anna's Hummingbird, is on the move, spreading north and east. It's a West-Coast b...

There is a rule-of-thumb ornithologists follow: If you see a pair of birds, robins, say, and they look so  much like each other you can'...

  On these blogs I have been introducing the reader to the wildlife we live amongst, which give us so much pleasure.  Though it was not  by ...

Some Special Birds     We like all our animals that come to the porch for meal worms (well, maybe not house sparrows) but some are special. ...

 On the blog I just sent I sent a bunch of pictures of Gila Monsters and stated that you could tell individual specimens apart by the patter...

The Backyard Porch (2)   In the last post I described our back porch and how we lured the Road Runners, medium-sized carnivorous birds, to c...