Last summer, I moved outside a small birdhouse that Susan made (and that’s decoratively lived inside since she built it long before I came along). I attached it to a decorative post that wasn’t doing very well holding a birdbath and for a little extra height I mounted the post to a small end table …
I love ya, but you’re confusing the callalilies:
At first entirely wary and hesitant of the feeder recently installed on the porch, this hummingbird (best guess is it’s a rufous hummingbird) eventually came back (as you’ll see in the latter half of this video) for a meal. PS. It’s much more enjoyable to break out of these meager dimensions and watch the thing …
I always make a point during a morning break in the action to go out into the backyard and check on the tortoise — just to make sure she’s her usual tortoise self. On this morning, passing the birdbath on my way to Buster’s hutch, I sighted a spider flailing a bit in the water, …
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It didn’t take long for one of our local Anna’s hummingbirds to find the feeder I set up on the front porch. Though there’s obviously no basis in fact, I’d like to think this is either the mother of the hummingbird chick I rescued last summer, or the fully grown chick itself (caught on cam …
Not sure whether she flew away or blew away, but after this snap was taken by Susan, I set the katydid on a callalily leaf in hopes it would live to see another day. A short while later I came out to check and the critter seemed pretty spent, but then a bit later I …
click image for the bigger picture On an awesome Thanksgiving Day ride up and over Griffith Park, I encountered this healthy looking specimen of coyote padding along Mt Hollywood Drive in the opposite direction, and I dutifully turned around and pedaled after it given what appeared to be an apparent habituation to humans. I chase …