Last on the Card – January 2022 I think we — as a family — took more pictures during the past three or four days than we took the entire rest of the month. The huge blizzard that hit us geared… Read More ›
Birds
FEBRURARY SQUARES – ODD BIRDS
The Square Odds I’m not sure if anything I’ve got is odd. I’m not sure that everything I’ve got isn’t odd. Given the past couple of years, I’m not sure that anything is odd unless everything is odd or weird… Read More ›
BIRDS IN THE STORM
It’s hard not to feel sorry for the wild things that have to live through a winter hurricane. I’m not silly enough to try to gather them together to keep them warm and I realize that “wild” means dealing with… Read More ›
BLIZZARD ANYONE?
THE LAST TIME WE HAD “A BIG ONE” WAS 2015 – ON THIS SAME DAY. HERE WE GO AGAIN! Living in New England, we have considerable amounts of wintry weather than other places. You live in New England and snow… Read More ›
JUST ONE GRACKLE ON A BRIGHT WINTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Our now-standard groups of hundreds of Grackles didn’t visit today. They left yesterday around brunch and only one returned today just before dinner. He sat on the pole that supports the wooden feeder. Perfectly posed, though it was late in… Read More ›
BUSY DAY FOR ME AND GRACKLES: SKETCHBOOK 3
Despite their menacing appearance, grackles are easily startled. If I tap on my window very gently — so lightly even the ever-nervous doves don’t pay attention – the grackles will be in flight while all the other birds will keep… Read More ›
BLUE JAYS IN THE SNOW
We didn’t see them all summer. Some unknown fungus was making them sick — and blind. A blind bird is not a pretty sight, so I was relieved when late in the fall, a couple of Blue Jays showed up…. Read More ›
PRETTY RED BIRD
Cardinals are always very pretty birds, both the girls and the boys, but of course the boys usually get all the attention. Male cardinals are really RED. Even their feet and beak are red — with just a black eye… Read More ›
SNOW!
Well, it’s January and it snowed. A few years ago, this would have been absolutely normal. This is New England. It’s winter. It snowed. But we haven’t have almost any snow for the past three winters, so, surprise! It’s the… Read More ›
ANOTHER RETURN OF THE GRACKLES
Captions: Garry Armstrong They never entirely left. For a while, there were only a couple of them hanging around. Sometimes, a mob of them would show up and I could see and hear them from anywhere in the house. Once,… Read More ›
IT’S STILL RAINING
I can’t remember the last time we had a whole day during which it didn’t rain. We got an hour of partial clouds a few days ago — early in the morning. By noon, it was dark, grey, and raining…. Read More ›
2022? ARE YOU KIDDING?
Holy moly, can it be this late in the century? Weren’t we worried about what would happen when it turned to 2000? Whoosh! Time is speeding by like a diesel at full throttle.
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