WoodSong- Off the Beaten Path

Our windchill is brutal today, but determined to practice my ‘one eye’ method, I took my camera out into the east side of the woods and navigated (poorly) around my property for 15 minutes. We have Common Redpolls here now, but they’re always skittish when they first arrive. One bird that isn’t skittish and is […]

‘Primarily, I went to the swamp to study and reproduce the birds. I never thought they could have a rival in my heart. But these fragile night wanderers, these moonflowers of June’s darkness, literally “thrust themselves upon me.” When my cameras were placed before the home of a pair of birds…and clinging to them found […]

If you haven’t already done so, make sure and visit I and the Bird #41, which is being hosted by ‘A Snails Eye View’ this week. Another fine installment you won’t want to miss.
And I want to thank Laura, for reminding me of a book that I dusted off and began to read again, despite […]

“The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that everything was white.”
(William Blake)

Government buildings on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge are shedding lead paint that is being eaten by curious albatrosses. Midway is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Laysan Albatrosses, a species already listed as globally vulnerable to extinction. Lead poisoning from the peeling paint is predicted to kill 100,000 of these magnificent ocean […]

‘Cackling like a wild banshee-
The master chisler
Carves our tree trunks well.’
We have a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers and their 2 youngsters that visit our suet feeders daily- the problem is, our somewhat neurotic German Shorthair Pointer has decided she enjoys leaping up onto the low window sills when they appear and has made it her […]