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Category Archives: Photography
How to Care for Wild Birds in Winter, Part 2
February 4, 2011 – 7:58 am
(See Part 1, Food and Feeders, here.)
Water- Growing up here in Tennessee, I watched everyone take down their bird baths once the weather got cold. I heard that leaving a bird bath up was a death sentence for birds because they would jump into cold water to bathe and die of shock. That isn’t true. Birds just aren’t that stupid. (A point that gets harder and harder to prove every time a Mourning Dove gets startled and flies into the side of my house.) Birds need drinking water and I’d rather they get it from my clean(ish) bird bath than a scummy puddle under someone’s car. read more
Snow Day Links
December 13, 2010 – 7:37 am
Let me guess, your kids played in the snow for twenty minutes before they were wet, cold, and begging to come back inside. So you stuck them in front of the TV and now here you are at the computer. Not proud of yourself, are you?
It’s okay. You aren’t alone. I told my kids they were letting all of the heat out of the house when they kept running in and out of the door and one of them said, “So?”
Now I’m making them watch Alive. That should teach them.
For those of you in Wisconsin and Minnesota, who have gotten 18 and 23 inches, respectively, I’d like to let you know that here in Chattanooga, TN, we’ve gotten an inch of snow and the city is shut down.
Here are some links to ease the pain: read more
When Good Parenting Goes Bad
October 18, 2010 – 11:02 am
Butterfly Feeder Fail
October 11, 2010 – 8:06 am
I found a site that explained how to make butterfly feeders from old fruit or using a jar and homemade nectar. I didn’t have a jar with a good lid so I decided to figure out another way. I used a little Ziploc container, cut X’s in the lid, and pushed strips from an old yellow shirt through them. Then I filled the container with homemade nectar (1 part sugar to 4 parts water). The fabric soaked up the nectar and gave the butterflies a good place to land. Butterflies taste with their feet so it helps if they can land on the part with the nectar.
I put the whole thing on a red lid and set it on an overturned pot near the lantanas that the butterflies already love. It was a surefire thing. Look, even this little bee approved… read more
Sunday Serenity
September 19, 2010 – 7:42 am
This little lady was hanging out on the lantanas and was kind enough to let me take some pictures. Thanks to the Butterflies of North America 
Hidden Pictures
September 12, 2010 – 2:21 pm
I zoomed in to take this picture of a sweat bee on the Yarrow blossoms and noticed something else… read more
Teeny Tiny Spider
September 2, 2010 – 7:52 am
The web was strung between two basil plants and the spider itself was no bigger than the nail on my pinky finger.
Bird Brains
September 1, 2010 – 7:24 am
My dad shared his love of birds with us by pointing out hawks while he was driving and then giving the hawk his full attention despite the fact that he was still driving the car down the road at 60mph. Meanwhile, the passengers of the car would be saying, “Road! Look at the road!” It was a long time before I could see a hawk soaring in the sky without going into a cold sweat. Despite the deep emotional scarring in my youth, I do enjoy birdwatching today. read more
Friday Fun
August 13, 2010 – 10:18 am
- No bones about it, these colored x-rays of flowers by Hugh Turvey are amazing.
See the rest here. (via neatorama) - A fan wrote Dr. Laura a very amusing letter, thanking her and asking her to clear up a few things. Link (thanks to Kara!)
- A mouse decides that eating a leopard’s food is a good idea even if the leopard is standing right there. Link
Enjoy your weekend, everyone! I hope all of the kids and parents around here enjoyed the first days of school.
The World’s Longest Yard Sale has the World’s Neatest and Weirdest Stuff
August 10, 2010 – 6:49 am
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