My feeder has a new pair of tufted Titmice, small birds like chickadees with a crown of light gray feathers on their heads. Yesterday evening I heard a killdeer calling on my Merlin bird identifier. It has started calling in the early evening. These two birds will...
Yesterday I was poking around my garden here in West Virginia and found that the daffodils and tulips were already above ground by several inches. The little white snowdrops are blooming already in my daughter’s garden. How can they endure the nighttime temperatures...
This week’s blog isn’t actually about a walk in the woods or along a road. It is about my bird feeder birds. They are giving me lots of pleasure as winter passes the last corner. They seem to be the most lively entertainment from nature at this time (although my...
Spanish moss hangs from a lot of trees in the southeast part of the United States. But it isn’t really moss. It is an air plant, which means that it gets all its nourishment from the air and from rainfall. Where we are vacationing here in the St. Augustine area,...
On a warm day we spotted this beautiful White Peacock Butterfly on our walk along the Indian River in Florida. These butterflies range from as far south as Argentina to the Carolinas in the U.S. That is why I have never seen one in Wisconsin or West Virginia. The...
