It’s that time of year when the mockingbirds settle down in and around, building their nests, laying their eggs and raising their chicks. (click to enlarge) Our cat Jiggy, the youngest and most curious (and unfortunately best hunter) of our feline foursome, seems more than happy to draw their noisy territorial ire — not, as …
The telltale alarm calls of the mating pair of mockingbirds nesting somewhere in the next-door-neighbors’ tree alerted me and could only mean one thing: a hawk was too close for their comfort. So of course with cam in hand I went outside to see if I could spot the trespassing raptor, and by tracking where …
So yesterday I’m out sweeping up the front yard (see, I’m one of those obsesso compulsoids that absolutely positively HAS to clean up the house inside and out right before I leave the place for two weeks) and on one of the irises I found this healthy specimen of grasshopper. So today, Part II of …
(click to enlarge) Because it’s a hopper.
Couldn’t resist posting this. On our way up to the reservoir meadow event yesterday we passed under a bottle brush tree on Silver Lake Boulevard and this wonderful hummingbird obliged me taking forever to get my camera and long lens together by keeping busy until I could capture it (click to enlarge): Â
Ah well… I can only hope the pair of house sparrows who moved in April 3 and built a nest inside one of the paper lanterns in the backyard only to have it and their two eggs destroyed in the April 12 wind storm have found a safer more secure place to rebuild and repopulate …
Full day at work. 50 miles of bike riding and even though it’s way late being too early tomorrow, I still manage the energy to upload pix of: Some flowers and stuff at the Exposition Park Rose Garden where I stopped on my wat from work to the Arts District Tonight’s IAAL•MAF Invitational Ride I …