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Born in a garbage can

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“The turkey vulture not only acts but looks as if it had been born in a garbage can and doused with slop and ashes.” American Wildlife Illustrated (1953) These are black vultures, which are described as “another unbeautiful bird.” Little known fact, vultures are protected by law because they are migratory birds. In some regions,

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Trees Down, Bones, & Birds

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Mr. Big Food cut the Southwest and Hidden Pastures yesterday as best he could given how wet it still is in places. Told me there were a couple of trees down by Copperhead Crossing. So this morning Rocky, Missy, and I went to take a look. At some point, I saw Missy running with a

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Hawk ID

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Had to call Miss M. Out in the garden this afternoon. Heard screeching. Looked up– way up— and saw two, no three, hawks soaring. Red tailed right? I could see their tail bars. Oh. Red tailed hawks have red tails. No bars. Red shouldered it is. It’s so nice that among the five of them–

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Cloud Watching

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Thursday evening’s videos showed clouds to the east– the rain we’d had an hour or so earlier. This photo is the beginning of a little squall line that blessed us with an evening shower. Years ago, I took up bird watching– even bought the National Audubon Society Field Guide. It told me that every year

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One Country Mouse Minute

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Turn your speakers up all the way. The Days Gone by! O the days gone by!The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quailAs he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale;When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was

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Lights Out

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Another easy way to prevent bird impacts is simply to keep your household or apartment lights off from dusk until dawn.  Andrew Del-Colle, “Three Ways You Can Help Migrating Birds This Fall,” August, 2018. I like birds just as much as the next bird lover, but that’s just stupid. To begin, a spot of editing is

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Well, this is odd.

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That’s a pigeon up on the roof. A city-dwelling flying rat pigeon. I know that it does not look much like a pigeon, but trust me, it’s the same city-dwelling flying rat pigeon that was sitting in the driveway yesterday. Gosh, I hope Tiger doesn’t get it!

Marica Cooks Monday | For the Birds

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No. No, that’s not something from The X-Files. It is what the Frugal Gourmet’s Basic Brown Soup Stock looks like after the roasted SOUP BONES and celery and carrots and onions and all have simmered for ten hours and the bones, celery, carrots and onions have been scooped out with a spider and the broth has

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