Somebody was lurking on my tomatillos…somebody about the size of my pinky nail…
Category Archives: defective wildlife
When Kevin and I were in New Orleans a month or so ago, we were out birding and encountered this killdeer in a parking lot. It immediately set about convincing Kevin that its wing was broken. Really broken. SO BROKEN YOU GUYS. Killdeer are, of course, justly famous for this trick. They do it to […]
I can’t quite express how wild the oakleaf hydrangea is right now. It has these big loose cones of flowers, but the inside of the cones are clouds of stamens dripping pollen. Honeybees are swarming all over them, rolling around in it, covered in yellow. There’s a few flower beetles and so forth, but I […]
So I was in bed last night reading on my iPad, with the lights off, and Kevin was asleep next to me with Sergei the cat curled up in the crook of his arm, as is Sergei’s wont. Something tickled my elbow. I assumed, because of my position, that it was Sergei’s tail, and ignored […]
A mystery for all my naturalist buddies out there… I spent the weekend in the swamps of Lousiana, specifically a mixed cypress & palmetto bayou. (Early May, in case this post sticks around for awhile.) We were birding in the middle of the day, and at one point, we stopped because some Gray Gnatcatchers were […]
BEHOLD THE HORRID GLORY OF CRAW-BOB THE LAWN CRAYFISH HE LIVES HE HUNGERS HE IS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF INCHES LONG THEY SAID I WAS MAD WHEN I SPOKE OF LAWN CRAYFISH BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW!? (ahem) Hound went out in a rainstorm and poked something, which poked her back, and this sequence […]
So I was pulling weeds and flinging handfuls into the uncultivated chunk of garden under the trees, and I winged in a handful of chickweed and looked up just in time to see it land on top of this guy. (He is a Carolina Chickadee.) I ran in and immediately excavated him. He was fine, […]
You can read the full saga of Turtle-Bob over at Squash’s Garden, here.
Nine Goblins is on iBooks! You go to the app, you type in “Nine Goblins” and it’s THERE and it’s a BOOK! WOOO! *pant pant pant* No love from Kobo yet, but you can’t have everything. Far more importantly, if you ask me, Brandon the border collie is back from the vet. We have been […]
So let me get the really huge awesome amazing stuff out of the way first—my buddy Mur Lafferty won the Campbell Award! YAAAAAAAY! *muppetflail* Seriously, I was terrified. This was her last year eligible and I really wanted her to win it, and not just because she has driven me to the airport at 6 […]
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