If you look on the Internet, you will find there are places were you can register to get alerts when there is a rare bird in a place it rarely/never is or something unusual happens. If you have the Merlin app* on your phone, you should have gotten an alert last evening. Because of the […]
Cleon and I have been working in our gardens – starting to get them ready for winter. We are pulling up weeds, doing some selective deadheading, and mulching bare spots. We are careful how much we deadhead as some plants winter better intact. These are the plants we cut to the ground in spring. And […]
Those of you who have been reading this blog know we had a severe storm in July with damage at our house. Uprooted trees (full grown oaks and hickories) and damage to the roof, siding and garage doors. Today is the day the roofers are supposed to come – one-half of the roof will be […]
If any of you were watching the birdfeeder cam at 1:15PM Central Time – just a few minutes ago – you saw a Cooper’s Hawk in the larger of the two bird baths. Just standing there in the middle of it. Females are larger than males and I am guessing this was a female – […]
At about 4:15PM Central Time today, we will be taking down the birdfeeders for cleaning. Cleon will also be cleaning and refilling the birdbaths. Our storms and high winds from Hurricane Helene are over and starting tomorrow, we should have sunny and cooler days. And hopefully more birds coming to eat! The feeders will be […]
When Cleon posted his photo in the Public Forum of a raft of White Pelicans on the large lake near our house, he also posted a photo of the silt dam in that lake which was filled with Double-Crested Cormorants, a few Ring-billed Gulls, and several Great Blue Herons. In that photo you cannot make […]
A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill can hold more than his belican! My father taught me this poem when I was a little girl. It is two lines from a longer poem written by Dixon Lanier Merritt in 1913. These two lines have always brought a smile to my face because they are […]
A male Northern Cardinal at the feeder. Besides eating, he is calling to his mate who is in a nearby tree. She will come to eat after he is finished. If you were watching at about 7PM Central Time and had your volume up, you could hear both birds. chip chip chip Her […]
Cleon and I spent last weekend in Lake Geneva, WI, with his daughter and family. They live in the city of Chicago and although they like and occasionally use the wonderful parks in and around Chicago, they truly love living in the city. Cleon and I are small town/rural people. But we all enjoy visiting […]