An Archivist's Miscellania

Male cardinal, eating seed from our feeder I can't believe it has been over a month since I last sat down to write here. I know I th...

Brown Creeper Back in December, we had an ice/sleet/snow storm that kept us all at home and inside for several days - it was far too sli...

  Last week I finally got a chance to do what I have been waiting 3 years to do - take a picture of a bluebird . They are a common bird...

Red-winged blackbirds are one of the few birds I can identify by sound, and be 100% sure I am right. We have a lot of them around the cit...

Picture from Cornell Lab of Ornithology Red-winged blackbirds .* I remember seeing and hearing them on walks with my parents (often at t...

I realized last night as I was going to bed that I forgot to give y'all a blog yesterday. Oh well. Means my pictures will last longer! A...

One of the nice things about our new backyard is the birds. The yard behind us is a mini-forest, and the neighbors never do anything outside...

I went on the longer walk that Benjamin and I usually only do on weekends (just because it takes 40 minutes, and we tend to be short on time...