In September 2021, I wrote for the first time here about one of the great birding spectacles in my region. As our summer rainy...
Central Mexico, where I live, has a monsoon climate. In other words, we tend to have heavy rains from late May or June through...
A light rain had begin to fall on the valley between steep slopes that held the headquarters of HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. Patches of...
The Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) visits my home every year about this time. Of course the males come first to establish territory. According to Macauley...
We have a small water feature off our back porch. It’s probably about 300 square feet in size, holding maybe 2000 gallons of water....
“I want you / to show me the way,” Peter Frampton sings. Pop music is all well and good for people, but how do...
Rufous Hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) breed farther North than any other North American hummingbird and have the longest migration route of all U.S. hummers. Their...
Here in Northern California I am fortunate to have at least three of the western hummingbirds of North America visiting my yard. The least...
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