Well, as is readily evident in the clip of this morning’s feeding session, you can count me happily mistaken in my previous presumption that there was but one Anna’s hummingbird chick in the nest in our backyard Victorian Box tree. There is indeed, two and both look hungry and healthy. Yay! And just in case …
Just like the proverbial pot full of water that never boils, neither does a watched backyard hummingbird chick ever get fed. So I duct-taped the cam to my spotting scope’s eyepiece, hit record and left, coming back long after the memory card filled up and the camera shut down in hopes that while away it …
The 2012 edition of my Watts Happening Ride took place this past picture-perfect Saturday, and it was my complete pleasure to share the following landmark people, places and events I’ve discovered there with the 28 cyclists who joined me: The last residence of jazz great Jelly Roll Morton The childhood home of Nobel Prize Winner …
Ranger and I adjourned to the backyard this afternoon to the Wall Ball Court (really it’s just the the walkway directly behind the house), and before commencing play I decided to strap my GoPro cam to me using its chest harness and also set up a second camera behind me to capture all the action from …
A neighborhood cat trespassed in the wrong backyard this morning and Ranger managed to bolt out the backdoor and get the drop on it. So instead of escaping across the ground it panicked and got chased up one of our trees where it sat about 12-feet up for about 15 minutes thoroughly skeptical of my …
Yesterday after breakfast (and before the day’s NFL Conference Championship games yielded the two teams I least wanted to see in the Super Bowl; but still: Go Giants, beat that Brady Bunch!), Susan and I went for a morning hike with Ranger in Bronson Canyon Park, a place I’ve been visiting since I was 12 …
Yesterday, Susan forwarded me an amazing video (embedded at the end of this post) sent to her that captured an unbelievable interaction with mountain gorillas and a trekker visiting Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest last month. Reveling in that magnificent experience I dove into my external hard drive in what I figured would be the latest …