I’ve been monarch ranching for awhile, but I’ve always wanted to ranch some swallowtails. Some species of swallowtail caterpillars feed on parsley. Earlier this spring, I found out that we had accidentally had a black swallowtail living in our apartment (we guess it came in as a caterpillar on some of Cinnamon’s parsley) but I [ Read More ]
Don’t forget, tonight at 6pm is Birds and Beers (a gathering of birders to have a drink and talk some birds) at Merlin’s Rest. People of all abilities are encouraged to come, if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. Non Birding Bill will also be there too, so if you want to bring a non [ Read More ]
Mr. Neil has a cat flap on his garage… I think I need to put a clarification up before I go further with this post. Mr. Neil has cats. I have given him all the information on the Cats Indoors Campaign, and some of his cats are strictly indoor cats, however one cat in particular [ Read More ]
And yet another grasshopper sparrow, they are everywhere I go, I can’t escape them. I’ve seen them before, but not like this summer. I don’t know if I’m just paying more attention or if we are having a bumper crop of grasshopper sparrows…or if aliens from some distant planet are trying to send me a [ Read More ]
I picked Ornithoblog for the 8 Random Facts Meme and he asked me translate. My French is a tad rusty, but here are what I think his 8 random things are translated into English. If anyone out there finds fault with my translations–please let me know: 1. I bungee jumped the highest bridge in Europe [ Read More ]
Non Birding Bill and I headed out to check the status of the Kitty hive. Last time, we had placed a new queen in a cage inside the queenless hive. The cage opening was covered with hard candy. The workers were supposed to chew their way inside and by the time they got to her, [ Read More ]
I love celebrities who have a sense of humor about themselves. It’s an admirable quality. The US readers of this blog may not have seen it, I’ve been chuckling about since I found it on You Tube last month (it’s about five and a half minutes):
A question came up in the previous entry about banding young raptors, do we worry about being bit and do we band the adults (and if so, how do you get the adults)? Let’s talk about handling raptors: If you have ever noticed from my fall hawk banding photos, we always are holding the hawks [ Read More ]
I don’t know how many of you readers have been following the Zickefoose Blog about blogging styles: as a blogger, are you an ant (writing posts ahead of time and having a store of well thought out, well written, typo free entries) or are you a grasshopper (posting as the muse strikes you, never bothering [ Read More ]
I keep trying to do a blog entry about osprey banding today, but I keep finding ticks. I’ve lost count of how many I have found crawling on me and I’m not sure what’s more disturbing: the number of ticks I keep finding or the fact that I’ve been out of a tick area for [ Read More ]
