To Thwart the Racoons
I’m hoping this lead weight I just found on walk will thwart the raccoons from lifting and pillaging my feeder!!!



I’m hoping this lead weight I just found on walk will thwart the raccoons from lifting and pillaging my feeder!!!



Sometimes fascinating nature happens right in your backyard!! We came back from a weekend trip yesterday and were unloading the car, going in and out. I stepped into the front room and felt the air conditioner kick on, blowing from the vents, and simultaneously I smelled an awful, putrid, dead animal smell. We searched around…
Non-avian denizens of the deep.
Luck was with us in Garland for the big event I’d looked forward to for years!!! May have to go to Iceland in 2026 or so.
Well………………………………….ya’ll have heard me talk about “The Dacha” — my serene place on the North San Gabriel River……….well yesterday it was not so serene!!! I couldn’t get too close when I went out about 2:00pm so you can only see my blue tiny house on wheels in 1 pix. Most of what you can see…
Nice and cool on the Oregon Coast!! Here’s a few birds and sea creatures. I’ll let you gull aficionados give me an ID on these west coast gulls. Hint: 3 species.
On return from Davis mnts today I made my regular stop at the pecos river on the outskirts of Iraan (that’s “Ira — Anne”). There I found a Least Flycatcher and a low altitude Uppy flyby. But what really JAZZED ME!! was the apparently healthy population of minnows and I believe Pecos Pupfish (will be…