How four friends spent a three-day, itchy Valentine's Day weekend.
Chicken Pox Sleepover
72 Heads, 79 Degrees and One Cat
Only lettuces in the garden, on hot winter days, and a cat comes to the all-you-can-eat bird buffet.
Big Bend NP: Desert Clarity
All about The Big Bend, our favorite place to be in Texas, in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. And to think It only took us 15 years and 10 hours to drive there (1,800 words).
Birding Big Bend
♥ I can't think of a better way to start a new year than birding with my family. As we reset our annual species count for the new year -- as we've done the three previous ones -- our first-week-of-the-year trip to Big Bend National Park resulted in several birds we would not otherwise have … Continue reading Birding Big Bend
A New Year: Looking Up, Looking Back, and Plugging In
A little catch up for being away so long, DirtNKids will continue into 2016. This dirt party is just getting started, so read on, friends.
Backyard Feathers: The Best of 2015 Birding (Part 2)
There are those we watch and those we chase. Here are 20 bird portraits of our most photogenic yard residents (Part 2).
Chasing Feathers: The Best of 2015 Birding (Part 1)
There are those we watch and those we chase. Here are 25 bird portraits we chased (Part 1) and a re-cap of our best chases of 2015.
Cedar Waxwings
Cedar Waxwings need a painter...not a photographer. ♥ Added one more bird to the list for the year (Couch's Kingbird) so we are at 253 birds and holding!
Reasons To Stay
Winter is for the birds.
Ghost Birds: When Flooding Makes A Ghost Town
How water-sucking and storm flooding can turn a neighborhood into a nature center. Nature rocks.
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