The babies are growing by leaps and bounds. It has been 3 weeks since the eggs were laid and the babies are now approximately two weeks old. They’ve grown from very scrawny and sort of ugly little naked chicks into bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, pin-feathered and very hungry little chirpers. Their instincts are really quite amazing, and…
I have put off posting for a brief period because I’ve been having photo software problems with the computer and didn’t want to do the first bluebird post until I had some pictures to share. However, the issue is still not resolved and if I don’t get busy blogging, the baby birds will have grown…
It’s a busy time of year at the birdfeeders! I have an abundance of finches at my new country home–gold finches, purple finches and pine siskins. There are probably some others that I’m not familiar with, yet, but those are the primary three. I haven’t seen any house finches, to date, but I’m sure they’re…
Well, it finally happened. The first frost. We had skated by a couple of nights when the temperatures looked as though they were going to sink, but then stalled out in the upper thirties. Not last night, though! It was a brisk 26 degrees when I woke up this morning and there was an absolutely…
Being a Kansas boy by birth, it seems only natural that I would have a strong affinity for sunflowers. Kansas is, after all, the sunflower state. The wild form of Helianthus annuus grows up and down the roadsides and throughout natural areas across the state. This is not the giant garden form of sunflower that…
(Originally posted December 4, 2007) Good morning, everyone. I’ve been thinking for the past several days that I needed to get a new blog posted, but have had a bit of writer’s block. The past couple of weeks have been extremely busy and with Christmas now nearly upon us that probably isn’t going to change…