Renaissance Naturalist
Watch for the Treecreeper
Songbirds are gone and our feeders are flocked with sparrows, finches, and juncos. But glance away to the tree trunks and try to catch a glimpse of our winter migrant – the brown creeper (Certhia americana). He/she/it is the only treecreeper in North America and an...
Chocolate Covered Anything Day
By Barbi Hayes I am writing this on Dec 15th, the wackiest day for weather. Start with 70-degrees in morning and morph into a High Winds, tornados, and thunderstorms. This morning I went on the kitchen deck and starting recording wind speed with my Kestrel –...
Pretend to Be a Time Traveler
By Barbi Hayes I am writing this on December 8th which is the official “Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day.” And on this very cold day I am time traveling back via photo to May 5th, a day that was spitting rain by late afternoon and awarded us a spectacular...
The Last Tomatoes
By Barbi Hayes It’s December 1st and we are down to our last tray of ripening tomatoes from our garden. What a bountiful season we had this year. The day before the first pending frost we were out there collecting many 5-gallon buckets of green tomatoes – from grape...