I finally finished up a string of night shifts (which neatly blanketed about 3 straight days of beautiful NW winds/gales) and headed to Tisc...

So, I put this photo up a few days ago to try to illustrate a point.  I've been somewhat annoyed lately by some of the photo quizzes in ...

 ... there probably existed a rare bird.  Except for the first snow buntings of the fall (and the first for my Bigby year), despite N winds ...

I went down below the house again this morning in my ongoing search for an orange-crowned warbler for the Bigby year.  The last 2 years I...

... though you wouldn't know it from the 85 degree temperature today. I went down below the house this morning again hoping to find an o...

"One, two, three, four, sive, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, leben," Hazel counted out as we walked down the beach a couple days ag...

After the somewhat depressing pics I posted the other day of a smashed Savannah, while wading through a weedy brushy field today, had good n...