Where all the bird news comes to roost!
I love looking at all the different bird that hang out in the yard but one of my favorites is the hummingbird. They really are beautiful birds that zip around the yard all day. I decided to get a closer look so what better idea than to put out a birdfeeder. Hummingbirds have a high […]
Please help Los Angeles Audubon Society, our closest “sister chapter,” to win funding for our local bird environment projects, such as monitoring and protecting our threatened Snowy Plovers. Behind the scenes, our two chapters combine energies on many projects. [Chuck Almdale & Lu Plauzoles] Your vote gets Los Angeles Audubon’s Education Programs closer to winning […]
via Winning Money for Birds — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG
I think my butterflies have taken this social distancing thing to heart, as I have had far fewer visiting my front yard flowers than summers past. So, I was thrilled when this Monarch showed up, who apparently missed the memo. He spent a good bit of time flitting about the Zinnia bed… …sipping and sampling […]
For this week’s Six on Saturday, I have focused on a selection of ‘quirky’ plants. Yes, I am running a little close to the wire timewise as I decided to wait to include pictures of the glorious Epiphyllum Oxypetalum (Queen Of The Night) which only flowers in the dark. Each sweet-scented bloom only lasting one […]
I fully intended to get back to posting daily since I returned to my old riverside apartment, but got caught up in lockdown restrictions and tedious emailing/phoning back and forth trying to organize food supplies and medical appointments, so am a bit slow off the mark (so to speak). Seems some of our restrictions are […]
via NORFOLK ISLAND PINES (Araucaria heterophylla) – ALTONA — Living in Nature
Here’s the latest For the Birds column, which runs weekly in several New England newspapers … Apparently, all I had to do to get my hummingbirds back this summer was complain to my neighbor. I had had frequent visits from both male and female hummingbirds early in the spring. The daily visits continued for a […]
via For the Birds: Complain and they will come — Birds of New England.com
by Lavender
As parronts, we all know what happens sometimes when we leave the room and our birdies don’t know where we’ve gone.
Check out how Cheeks expresses her feelings on this serious issue in the June edition of It’s A Birb Thing.
Alright already, I’m starving! I haven’t seen an errant French fry, flung about by a wasteful human in months. WHERE ARE THE HUMANS? I’m a seagull, so a novel coronavirus means absolutely nothing to me. The fact there are no fries is a big deal!!!
I make my living mooching and believe me, humans are usually reliable for throwing us our share of fries. So it’s been a lonely, hungry Spring for us seagulls.
Read the May issue of Do Seagulls Get Wedgies here.
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by Michael Cook
Photography by Mark Pouley
Notes and photographs of my morning walks at Seagroves Farm Park in Apex, NC.
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The Roost 