Sweating the Small Stuff

On these perfect evenings we like to sit out on the porch in the darkness and listen for whatever life might be present, crickets mostly, or...

 When we bought our house here in Tucson a few years go we could tell by looking at it it would be wonderful for wildlife, and it has lived ...

We have a Mesquite Tree in front of our house that is doomed, in fact it is already more or less dead. The killer is hanging from all over t...

Birds at the Feeder (Southwestern) Cardinal  This bird, common at our feeder, looks like the common Cardinal seen throughout the east, but i...

I decided I have not been giving enough attention to the ordinary birds at our feeders, so that is what I am going to try to do here.  We ha...

One day recently our son and his family arrived at our house for a visit.  He parked in the open space in our garage and his son (our five-y...

 The Costa's is one of our most spectacular hummingbirds down here in southern Arizona. The problem is, it's practically impossible ...

 We live on a cul-de-sac just off the Catalina Highway. Our acre of fairly untouched desert is on land beginning to rise up towards the 8000...

 Autumn changing into winter is not my favorite time of year. You can scarcely complain about the weather here in southern Arizona now in No...

   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...