So I went out to Bond Park, to go birding. I saw a Double-Crested Cormorant, which was new for me, and the usual array of titmice, cardinals, robins, small crying children, mallards, Canadian geese, happy dogs with bandanas, etc, plus my first Ruby-Throated Hummingbird of the season. There were also a lot of things that […]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Still…working…on website. It’s not hard so much as tedious–I’ve resigned myself to the layout I’ve got now, with the understanding that as our knowledge grows, we may be able to do snazzy stuff like collapsing menus and whatnot. Better to get it up and on-line and working for me than obsessing. I am not a […]
(crossposted to birdlovers) Okay, now I’m having yet another ornithological identity crisis. I have another Mystery Thrush. It hopped up on the railing in the early morning, bounced stiffly along it for a moment, looking like a somewhat chilly little ball of dark-eyed angst, surveyed the area and the indignant goldfinches, then flapped off. Getting […]
As I sat at the train crossing for the second time in twenty minutes, watching Amtrak cruise by, an inner voice piped up. It sounded like that sage voice that, in times of stress and crisis, will offer wisdom and advice (which I naturally don’t listen to, because once you start obeying the voices in […]
Squirrel limping on right front forepaw. Keeps setting it down and picking it back up hastily, not putting any weight on it. While he* can rest the paw on the ground, or the rim of the water dish, and it doesn’t look swollen or bloody, there’s definitely something goin’ on. *sigh* If he comes back […]
On a whim–because it’s the weekend, and I can kill time however I want without guilt, damnit!–I thought I’d compile a list of birds I’ve seen in the yard here. My actual lifelist is probably of no interest to anybody but me, and weighs in at only 86 birds anyway, but the ones I’ve seen […]
A good weekend for the ‘ol lifelist–saw an absolutely bluer than blue little bird. My first thought was “lazuli bunting” but of course, I’m not on the west coast any more, so it’s an indigo bunting. Every time I think I’ve seen everything my patch of backyard can possibly offer, new species drop in out […]
The squirrels are in a mood this morning. One of the nameless hordes is obviously feeling rather more homicidal than usual–instead of the usual chase-chase-reverse-chase scene that seems to define squirrel politics, this one threw himself on a fellow squirrel and actually attacked, giving rise to a brief rolling ball of scratching and biting across […]
Today we tried to figure out where to put James’s newly acquired mountain bike, and confronted again that age old truth–no matter how much space a place has when you move into it, you will expand to fill it in no time flat. It horrifies me that two people need a three bedroom place, but…well, […]