Sweating the Small Stuff

 We live just off the Catalina Highway. We can get on the highway in minutes, and be heading up the winding road some 8000 feet to the top o...

 We usually see the Black-headed Grosbeak in the mountains, with only an occasional visitor to our yard, But some years they come down here ...

    Once a year since we have lived here, we have looked outside and been startled to see from two to ten Black-tailed (or Mule) deer wander...

  When we moved here to Tucson a couple of years ago I began photographing the wonderful wildlife around us, the bobcats and wolf-sized coyo...

 Meal worms are costing us a fortune, but they are our magic potion to tame the smaller animals on our porch. A creature comes up on our por...

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...