The air turns chilly as I unpack in the late afternoon. I manage to ignite a small fire in the wood stove and turn on the small heater. I set up my newest camping gadget, a CO2 detector. At one point in my life I became paranoid about CO2 poisoning but only recently figured out…
Sunday evening, my friend Don and I walked at a lake area/park south of town. Trees are not yet fully leafed out so we can still see nests, some vacated, some in use. I aimed my monocular at an especially large nest and discovered it was inhabited by a Great Horned Owl, sitting on her…
Before church on Sunday, a parishioner ran in and asked me, “Did you see the flock of robins in your yard?”Yes, I had. The day before, sometime between lunch and dinnertime, about a dozen robins arrived in my front yard. The berries on the tree that fed the Cedar Waxwings all winter was the lure.…