I tried not to be too concerned, but each time throughout yesterday afternoon that I stole glimpses of the frontyard hummingbird nest I didn’t see the mother, and by the time Susan got home from work I had sat for a full 20 minutes at the front porch spotting scope and was fretting over her …
Yesterday I set up the digicam on a tripod a few feet away from the hummingbird sitting on two eggs in the backyard and got this little timelapse of her doing some nest reinforcement in the afternoon breeze. It’s roughly 90 seconds of real-time condensed into 11: The nest itself is the size of a …
Yeah, I know… Coyote Corner doesn’t looks much different than it did in the webcam still captured the afternoon after planting 100 sunflower seeds in it five days ago, but trust me, we’ve got a nice bunch of sprouts rising. There’s more than 30 coming up in the patch itself, and a few more I …
On the first of this month I posted an itty bitty bit of video of the hummingbird and nest Susan found high up in the laurel tree overhanging our front yard. A couple days earlier I posted better ones over at LA Metblogs. In the days since we’ve been monitoring the mama and her eggs’ …
Many the times have I witnessed Ranger at her most foolishly adorable only wishing I had my camera with which to capture the display of her rolling on her ball in the dirt. Today that wish became reality:
I should have known right away that something was up when I came outside for lunch and first saw Ranger in the backyard standing still and looking down at the dirt. But it wasn’t until a couple minutes later and Ranger was still in the same spot still looking down that it dawned on me …