Sweating the Small Stuff

   I have recently done some blogs about packrats, saying that there is nothing ratty about them, but that  with their big eyes and their bi...

 In the blog I just sent I showed some pictures of a Tarantula Hawk carrying a  paralyzed Tarantula to a spot where it was going to put an e...

Not long after we moved into our house in the desert (this is two or three years ago now), we were sitting in our breakfast room looking out...

Well, what is the most fun right now continues to be our bats. We have four hummingbird feeders hanging along the front of our porch which w...

Well. here we are, trying once more to write a blog about the bats, and instead writing  about every other thing on the porch. I was explain...

In the previous blog (Our Porch at Night [part one]) I was talking about our bats, and how we entertained dinner guests and ourselves sittin...

 At this time of year Mexican Long-tongued Bats come up from Mexico into southern Arizona where they feed on nectar from flowers and on suga...

      Here is a typical pack rat nest such as I described in my last blog, the mess of fallen and rotting cacti that in some cases can prese...

 Over the past couple of years, with these posts, I have been introducing you to the animals that share their land with us here. Naturally I...

When we first moved here (a couple of years ago, now), Cooper's Hawks were very common. Scarcely a day would go by that we didn't se...