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Any Day Now
It looks like the first of our backyard sunflowers (to survive being stealthily beheaded by marauding squirrels who’ve de-budded three of them — the damn varmints!) is juuuuuust about ready to open up. The bud’s been playing peek-a-boo this way for a couple days and I’m hopeful we’re but a day or so away from …
Ranger Suffers From Tortoisitis
Yesterday at lunch I let Buster out of her hutch for a little backyard R&R (Roam & Recon), and apparently tortoises trigger some sort of allergic reaction in Ranger — located about the head and neck.
Cooper’s Town
One of the reeeeeeally cool things about working at home is being able to bring the laptop out and work in the backyard. And one of the reeeeeeally cool things about working on the laptop in the backyard is that you look up and see a Cooper’s hawk looking back at you like it could …
Picture Perfect
The picture you see framed and hanging above was snapped of a gray wolf at the Los Angeles Zoo 10 years ago. So enamored was I with the portrait that I cropped the 3″ x 5″ print to what you see and enlarged the hell out of it with my scanner, surprised that it held …
That’s One Small Flap For A Bird…
At about 9:25 a.m. this morning, our little baby hummingbird took its first flight from the fruit picker that had been its nest since Sunday. It was able to gain a smidgen of altitude and land a few feet away on a branch in the tree where it was born (as shown above; click to …
Hummingbird Webcam
I’m pleased to report that in the day after the miracle rediscovery at the mailbox, the baby hummingbird has stayed safe and sound and is still hanging out in the fruit picker serving ably as a surrogate nest/launch site. I’m not kidding about launch site. The tyke’s been working its wings and could take off …