I’ve spent hours the last two days watching for orioles and tanagers and other exotic-looking migrators but it occurs to me tonight that my most reliable friends are the ordinary finches who hang out here year-around. They’ve been flying around in pairs all day today, singing excitedly. The red caps of the males seem redder …
I won’t live long enough to produce meaningful tree ring data, so I’m not spending much time making a milestone out of 2020. I am trying to see things as seamlessly as I can. The sun rose on Redondo this morning as it usually does while there is still so much work to be done …
A month to go, but I’m here to give you a spring report. The looks of things change fast. The weather’s changing, too. Critters are doing their thing. It’s time for spring cleaning and maybe some home repair. Certainly there will be more bird-watching, conditions permitting. Maybe even a new selfie is due.
You fly in with a thirst … but a robin got there first. Smaller birds commiserate, wondering about the wait.Spirits seem to sink,but soon all get a drink.
A little water goes a long way in the high desert of New Mexico. We even accommodate Texas antelope squirrels. These were the visitors during one cup of morning coffee.
The storm blew in. Tried to watch baseball with Cowboy in the front row. Looked like a perilous day for lingering lizards. Had to break out my winter hat, but saw the first cranes heading south. Weather couldn’t decide between rain or snow. Bluebirds came around, wearing down jackets. And others arrived to sit out …
Did I really wake to a world where the president of the United States fumed again on Twitter at a couple of TV hosts? Bitterness spewed internet-wide over coverage of himself on a show I’ve never watched? Will the Trumps go on a Fourth of July picnic and eat hot dogs and potato salad? With …
This Great Horned Owl, I think it was, seemed sure dinner or something of equal interest was under this tree. It was raining lightly, but he swooped down from 75 yards away to investigate. He circled the little piñon for something like 15 minutes. The photo at the lower left shows his reaction …
Cedar Waxwings — those so softly colored birds — on a dark afternoon and the regular sunset owl.
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