I live in the desert southwest, Arizona, to be more specific. So it is always hot here, right? No change of seasons, right? Well yes and no. I spent my childhood and early adult life in way upstate New York. We really had a change of seasons there. Ninety degrees in the heat of summer [...]
Filed under: Backyard Decorating, Bird Feeders on September 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
In a previous post I discussed the fact that people go through great pains to stop squirrels from eating their bird seed. The premise of my thought was that why would we stop squirrels from eating? This sounded cruel to me.
Well I had several conversations with people from around the country on this topic since [...]
Filed under: Bird Feeders, Squirrel Proof on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
I have a friend, Bobby, with an odd sense of humor. We all appreciate Bobby and his method of thinking about the world. One of the jokes he always makes is about tuna safe dolphin. He jokes, “I only eat dolphin if no tuna was harmed in the harvesting of the dolphin”. I don’t have [...]
Filed under: Backyard Decorating, Bird Feeders, Squirrel Proof on September 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
I found a bird watching site in Minnesota that has a plethora of links and information on bird watching. I was amazed to find Optical Links that would lead me to bird watching equipment as well as some links that I am fond of such as Purple Martin Birds.
If you live in the Northwest, I [...]
Filed under: Bird Watching Resources on September 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
Today I was surfing around the web and I came across a useful website. Buteo Books is a book store dedicated to Ornithology. If you are looking for a specific book or if you just want to browse for a specific category of books, like books about birds of pray this is a good place [...]
Filed under: Bird Watching Resources on September 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
My kids started in a new pre-school this week. It was a pretty big change for the entire family. The new school is a Montessori franchise. My kids are in the same room, we are happy about that feature. We have to pack a lunch every day now, the other school provided a lunch. This [...]
Filed under: Bird Feeders on September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »