Welcome to My Blog
This blog is where I’ll share with you what I’m seeing in our yard, around our small lake, and when we travel—anything related to birds, wildlife, and plants. And also occasionally share with you what philosophical question is on my mind while I am outside watching the clouds drift by. Or if something strikes me as really funny!
I’d love to hear from you as well – what you are observing and thinking. Whether you have an observation or photo or have a question, please click on the button “Share Your Thoughts”. I will answer your email – and always ask your permission before I post something you send or share your first name and the state in which you reside.
I post every Sunday evening. Let’s enjoy nature together!
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15FebRead More
Snow Geese – look carefully at every flock. There may be more than Snow Geese in each one …..
Snow Geese are migrating and you might see and hear flocks overhead for at least another week. Out here in the midwest, they land to forage in our huge, harvested agricultural fields and to rest on our lakes. We do not often have them here on our small lake, but we do have them on […]
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12FebRead More
Avian Flu – What Can You Do?
Avian flu is nationwide and this is the time of year when it is at its most deadly. One way this disease is spread is through wild geese and ducks who can be carriers of the disease and from the end of January through mid April is when they are migrating. It is spread by […]
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07FebRead More
The rare Ross’s Gull spotted in Kansas
Cleon’s cousin Rick Radis sent me a text a few days ago to tell me a Ross’s Gull – a quite rare visitor to our lower 48 states – was sighted in Kansas. Unfortunately, I do not have a photo of this gull – please check your field guide or allaboutbirds.org. Look at the range […]
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07FebRead More
The Greater White-fronted Geese have landed!
Here they are! Cleon took this photo of them last year about this same time. Be sure to watch the video I just shot this morning – go to this website’s menu and click on Videos. And turn up your volume!
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05FebRead More
Spring is on its way!
The Snow Geese are now flying in huge flocks high over our house – all leisurely heading north to their nesting grounds on the tundra of northern Canada. And our Canada Geese are beginning what Cleon and I have named “The Great Goose Wars”. Each late winter, the large flocks of Canada Geese – which […]