I was passing the front door when a flicker of movement caught my eye. Something was in the flower bed. Having just evicted a large chocolate lab a few minutes prior* I stopped to look, and discovered that the main flowerbed is full of goldfinches. They perch on the vertical stems of echinacea and gayfeather, […]
Tag Archives: birds
Out of ink. Nearly out of paper. Need to do a Digger. Need to work on Nurk. Need to pack for Con. Obviously this is therefore the best time–nay, the only possible time–to decide that I should try to figure out a whole new way to do comics in color gracefully. Yeah! So it looks […]
Went for a quick walk down to the stream again. Nature is so cool. Today, in addition to the usual suspects of cardinal, towhee, bunny, finch, nuthatch and grackle, there was a great crested flycatcher, the first one I’ve ever seen. (Thank god, it’s the only flycatcher in the South–they’re notoriously hard to tell from […]
Oh, dear lord. I was out pouring the Hot Meats peppered sunflower seeds into a feeder, and ran afoul of them. My hands were nowhere near my face, so I suspect a stray breeze caught one of the tiny bits of husk, carried it dancing on the wind, and then, with airy malice, whipped it […]
I look out the back today and see what looks like a council of rodents–baby bunny, squirrel, and cotton rat, all sitting within a foot of each other, not bothering each other, just sitting. (Ironically, the cotton rat, half the size of either of the others, is the only adult of the bunch–the bunny is […]
I stepped outside to look at the garden, as I do every few hours–whether waiting for something new to surprise me, or half suspecting that it will vanish when my back is turned, I’m not sure!–and I startled a hummingbird hanging in the air over the lilies. He looked at me, a bit belligerently–this was […]
The woodpecker and the thrasher were fighting for the crown– the woodpecker chased the thrasher all around the ground. Some gave them suet and some gave them the stuff with the dehydrated bugs in it, And then the squirrels showed up and drummed them out of town. Okay, okay, I won’t quit my day job […]
Went out to the Wild Bird Company store today–James spotted it a week or so ago in the shopping center where we buy groceries, and since I was out of sunflower seeds for my feathered masters, I headed out that way to check it out. The array of bird feeders offered was incredibly vast (albeit […]
So the other night, at around midnight, James is out back unwinding before bed, and calls me out because he hears a bird. I was expecting a nightbird–a whippoorwill, maybe, which would be cool, because I’ve never heard one, or maybe if I was lucky a chuck-widow’s-will which I’ve also never heard. An owl, perhaps. […]
As if Nature is taking with one hand and giving with the other, while I slumped on the porch, contemplating the ruin of my lilies, a ruby-throated hummingbird zipped up and drained the pink salvia of nectar, then swooshed up to the tips of the cedar tree, and began making tiny, jerky motions that I […]
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