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Author: Shannon

321 Birding Year: Luck and Lifers

Posted on January 10, 2018November 29, 2020 by Shannon
Ruby-crowned Kinglet sing daily mid-summer at DeMotte Campground in the Kaibab National Forest.

321 Birds. One Year. These are the stories and photos behind this year's Luck and Lifers.

Posted in Animals, Birds, NatureTagged Birding, Cassin's Finch, Digiscoping, Golden Eagle, Long-billed Curlew, Red-shouldered Hawk, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Sandhill Crane, Swainson's Hawk, Wild turkey, Williamson's Sapsucker24 Comments

Missed Moments: A Whirlwind 2017 … In Forgotten Pictures

Posted on January 1, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon
My sister's donkey, Pedro, gives me a smile.

A longish re-cap of a busy year, in pictures.

Posted in Birds, Family, Insects, NatureTagged Bald Eagle, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend NP, Birding, Bobcat, Camping, Death, Fawn, Monarch butterfly, Ox Beetle, Rabbit, Snow storm, White-tailed deer24 Comments

Colorado Springs Break

Posted on October 10, 2017December 27, 2021 by Shannon
Copulation of Prairie Falcons at Garden of the Gods, Colorado, make a group of friars blush.

Photo subjects of our 2017 Spring Break in Colorado Springs.

Posted in Birds, Living, NatureTagged Birding, Black-billed Magpie, Brown Creeper, Bushtit, Clarks Nutcracker, Colorado Springs, Gray Jay, Hooded Merganser, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Shoveler, Prairie Falcon, Woodhouse Scrub Jay14 Comments

Belted Kingfisher: Bold Arrival (Sound!)

Posted on October 3, 2017December 27, 2021 by Shannon
A male Belted Kingfisher calls while in flight, making sure others know this is his hunting territory.

A short sound byte of one of our favorite yard birds.

Posted in Animals, Birds, NatureTagged Belted Kingfisher, Birding, Birdsong, Fall, Soundcloud, Yardbirds9 Comments

School Gardens Update: Mimicking Nature, Bed Prep How-to

Posted on October 2, 2017November 15, 2020 by Shannon
Adding water with each layer of amendment gets the beneficial soil microbes going.

Post hurricane, life gets back to normal again in the school gardens.

Posted in GardeningTagged Carbon, Flooding, Grasses, Leaves, Nitrogen, Raised bed garden, Raised bed gardening, School gardens8 Comments

In Their Element: Birds Of The Texas Upper Gulf Coast

Posted on September 24, 2017November 30, 2020 by Shannon
A male Eastern Bluebird brings morsels to his brood.

A collection of my favorite bird photos around where we live.

Posted in Animals, Birds, NatureTagged Birding, Black-and-White Warbler, Common Nighthawk, Eastern Bluebird, Laughing Gull, Mourning Dove, Nature photography, Orchard Oriole, Roseate Spoonbill, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Willet, Yellow-Crowned Night Heron27 Comments

Bizzaro

Posted on September 23, 2017December 27, 2021 by Shannon
The debri pile resulting from more than a hundred homes flooding during the Harvey rains.

When weird gets weirder ...

Posted in LivingTagged Blogging, Facebook, Flooding, WordPress9 Comments

Nearing The End Of Harvey

Posted on August 29, 2017November 30, 2020 by Shannon
Stick gauges and the direction of flow alert us to potential neighborhood flooding.

We're dry, but it ain't over yet.

Posted in Insects, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Crawdad, Evacuation, Flooding, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, John Campbell, Levees, NOAA, Stick gauge, USGS20 Comments

Eyes To The Skies (And On The Ground)

Posted on August 24, 2017November 15, 2020 by Shannon
The clouds cast a shadow in the moisture-laden atmosphere.

Hurricanes (okay to look) and eclipses (don't look). And a little Marley to dance to.

Posted in NatureTagged Bob Marley, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Ike, NOAA, Optimism, Solar eclipse, Tropical Storm Allison, Weather18 Comments

School Gardens Update: Swallowed By Grass

Posted on August 23, 2017January 21, 2022 by Shannon

See how the gardens survived being taken over by summer grasses.

Posted in Gardening, NatureTagged Compost, Grasses, Invasive Grass, School gardens, Sheet mulching, Summer5 Comments

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