Musings and Observations

For some time now, I’ve noticed that one particular rock, which I have dubbed Lookout Rock, in our front garden seems to be of great interest to all the birds who visit the property. Any bird I’ve seen anywhere near the front feeders at one time or another seemingly finds it necessary to stand on […]

For years I have been advocating that people, especially bird watchers, slow down if they truly want to appreciate the subtle wonders of the natural world. Occasionally, this slowing down sometimes requires the achievement of a complete stop. Take the idea of the plumage color and pattern of some common birds. Under day-to-day observation, a […]

This evening, as I do every evening, I pulled the SD card from my Wingscapes BirdCam to see what avian life visited the property today. To my great delight, there was a preponderance (if that is the correct venereal noun) of grosbeaks – Evening Grosbeaks (Coccothraustes vespertinus) to be precise. According to Bill Thompson III […]

At the close of my previous post I encouraged all who wished to do so to write their senators and representatives to urge them to reign in U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff in his circumventing of the environmental laws that will be violated in the process of completing the construction of the Great Wall of […]