Tag Archives: bird-watching
Food chain
If you feed wild birds long enough, you begin to feel as if you are doing something important. Especially during the winter, when the mercury flirts with zero and every natural food source is blanketed in snow, the birds come to depend on your largesse. In return, they reliably offer pleasures only sporadically available in the realm […]
Food chain
If you feed wild birds long enough, you begin to feel as if you are doing something important. Especially during the winter, when the mercury flirts with zero and every natural food source is blanketed in snow, the birds come to depend on your largesse. In return, they reliably offer pleasures only sporadically available in the realm […]
Stocking the feeders
I knew I had become a bona fide geek last weekend, when my to-do list included “make bird feeders.” There I was on a perfectly lovely Sunday afternoon – a warm winter window in which normal people were luxuriating – clutching a 16-inch-long chunk of birch as thick as my arm, a cordless drill and a […]
Fledging
Two weeks out of the egg; 10 minutes into the world. O thou kind Lord! Graciously bestow a pair of heavenly wings unto each of these fledglings … that they may wing their flight through this limitless space and may soar to the heights …. -Baha’i prayer for youth
All these kids
My resident robins had been expecting for some time, and when I saw Dad depart their nest beneath the garage eaves yesterday with what appeared to be poo in his beak, I figured the bundles of joy had arrived. I had confirmation today when I saw Mom perched atop a fencepost, an earthworm wriggling in her beak. She seemed […]
Bourgeois suffering
The wild things are busy at my feeders and in the space I have shoveled clear on my deck, which is otherwise blanketed in the foot of snow that fell over the weekend. I am glad to see all of them, even the piggish squirrels with their clever hands rapidly stripping the ears of corn. And the red-shafted […]
Meditatio Ephemera 