Sesame Open
Bernie C. just barked the magic words and now waiting for the door to open. He just went for a walk and now desperately wants to get back into the house. “Sesame open! Woof!”
Bernie C. just barked the magic words and now waiting for the door to open. He just went for a walk and now desperately wants to get back into the house. “Sesame open! Woof!”
That’s not my saying. It’s this guy on the photo. Does anyone out there like peanuts as much as this fella does?
For most of us, it’s disturbing. For a little fella like the nuthatch on the photo, it’s quite all right… “It’s fun!” hollered Mr. Nuthatch hanging upside down on the tree trunk in the...
These guys are consistent. The come to us early in the spring and leave us early in the fall. Tic Tac Toe… Works like a clock. They look and act like a military platoon....
It’s very warm today. Ms. Cardinal is having fun in the grass in the Belle Isle Marshes. “Isn’t she pretty?” I always say it loud. She likes to hear that. She is super pretty...
I haven’t seen American goldfinches here for over a year. I thought of thousands of reasons for this – from global warming to the food we were giving them. And now, they came back…...
Mr. Common Grackle picked a very uncommon place to get food in the backyard. Usually, places with smaller feeders are reserved for smaller birds. Go figure!
“We are b-a-a-a-c-k!” First, I thought I got confused when I heard this in the chorus line in our backyard opera house this morning. All birds were singing their happy songs and all of...
Our neighborhood turned into a little opera house this morning. Local birds are singing their songs all over the place. You can hear voices of robins, grackles, sparrows, cardinals, finches, blackbirds… The songs overlap...
Our backyard squirrels conducted a little Olympics this afternoon. It’s hard to say what discipline they were competing in. Sometimes it looked like freestyle wrestling. Sometimes – sprint runs. Then jumps. Then tree climbing....