Sweating the Small Stuff

 Winter is my least favorite season here in Tucson. It's not the weather, which is mild enough. In fact it might be more reasonable to w...

 When we first moved in here we put up bird feeders, with grain or suet for the regular birds, and with sugar water for the hummingbirds. I ...

I expect most people know that wolves and coyotes have bushy tails that hang straight down, whereas by the time dogs were domesticated, they...

Not long after we moved to Tucson (June, 2018) we were sitting at the breakfast table having breakfast and looking out the window over our e...

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 ...