Murrmurrs

baby So many things going on during nesting season if you're paying attention. The trill of victory, the agony of de tiny little feet! E...

You act weird enough, people just leave you be. I've already told you about the time Dave took me to the back porch to teach me how to b...

Surviving self-quarantine requires a flexibility of spirit. One quickly learns what is essential to living and what can be done without. Dav...

Mitzi Well, we certainly did not want to discourage Chip and Mitzi Vinebustle, the bushtits, from building a nest right spang in front o...

I have mealworms. Let the seduction begin. I have mealworms, two industrious chickadees, and a box of beebling baby birds at the goober st...

Who knows where a love story begins? The best ones don't always start with the precision of Cupid's arrow. Some take time. And som...

This is a fact. Dave has a history of being dive-bombed by birds. There are many reasons this could happen, but the primary one is that bird...

Studley April 2019 Marge and Studley Windowson are back again and I am so relieved. It was no sure thing my chickadees would be back i...

Well, you just never know, and this whole eight-year enterprise in chickadee rentals has been one long exercise in just never knowing. Throu...

My pal Julie Zickefoose is a world-class noticer. One of the cool things you can do if you're a world-class noticer like Julie is you ca...

I was minding my own business until the crows started up, and then I decided to mind theirs. You get a little group of crows all going off a...

When I was a kid, I found a baby robin on the ground. I got the standard rescue equipment: a shoebox, some Kleenex, and a worm to be named l...

I'm walking outside, and there, on top of my topiary salamander, is a tiny plant that looks an awful lot like one I'd put in my flow...