Sweating the Small Stuff

 We have recently discovered a new park which is (we can scarcely believe our good luck) an eight-minute drive from our house. It's an o...

   When I was little and growing up in Berkeley, I kept lots of snakes for pets, but they were all little snakes, ring-necked snakes and gar...

 It happens faithfully once a year: Mule Deer (AKA Black-tailed Deer) suddenly invade our yard. They are always males, their antlers either ...

 When we moved here, and the wildlife began to reveal itself to us creature by creature, one that we hoped for was the Gila Monster. We knew...

We love all the wildlife here, but unfortunately the wildlife doesn't love each other, and since we use meal worms to attract everything...

 I don't know what it says about my character that people think Scorpions make perfectly appropriate gifts for me, but they do. The spec...

I finished my last blog bemoaning the fact that the special birds, the ones we had fed and tamed all winter, now that spring has arrived hav...

 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...