ursuscelticus and mathochist gave me a hummingbird feeder for yule. I'd been seeing this hummingbird out the deck door, and wondered what he was living on here in the winter. Anyway, I put it up, and today saw (her? there's no bright throat and head patch, but maybe that's just a breeding season thing?) drinking from the feeder. Twice today ( Read more... )

ursuscelticus, the Eyas and I went hiking up the Buffalo mountian today. It's a magical spot. Not just for us either; story goes it's always been a traditional place for a spring ritual. The local hippie folk gather there on the equinox these days, anyway. But late fall is when I love to go there; and when, years and years ago me and ursuscelticus hiked up there...just as ( Read more... )

On the way to work this morining I spotted a pileated woodpecker. It was sitting, pecking at a tree stump, right at the corner of Grissom and Country club, not more than 3 feet from the road. So I stop the car and grab for may bag brfore remembering that I put my camera sefely away in my top dresser drawer yesterday ( Read more... )

This morning there was a bird in the top of a tree, singing like nothing else mattered in the entire world; I'm reasonably sure he was a mockingbird, mostly because of his song, but also because he was the right size and general silhouette. Sadly my birdwatching is limited because my vision is poor, and he was against the sky. He out-sang all the ( Read more... )