This came out in the Cenizo Journal. To read the articles on their site go to this link: http://www.cenizojournal.com/cenizo-2011-03.pdf ...

Our scheduled hummingbird banding was cancelled today so I went back to my oasis to work. Here's the tank after we finished cleaning it ...

It was all I could manage to shovel the tank silt into the loader bucket while Hugh sat in it with the engine running. Taking time off to go...

I coerced my son, Eric Faust (builder and owner of Alpine Furniture Store), to go from Alpine today and fix my pumps. He's a genius and ...

Got up around 5:30 AM (I hate getting up that early), left Alpine for my oasis, got there before 8 AM, filled feeders, then headed for Terli...

Some trees are really having a hard time this year. Here's my beloved Texas Pistache that froze in February, then leafed out nicely only...

I couldn't believe my eyes when this bird showed up today. It's not supposed to be here this time of year. Can you see which bird on...

I really had so much I wanted to post lately but yesterday the electricity was off all day and I got behind on everything. It's disgus...

I made a quick trip to CMO from Alpine to work on a problem of bees at the seed feeder. They emptied my tube feeders in less than 2 hours th...

Not much going on here. I photographed a few regular birds. This Verdin is here year-round... as are the Scaled Quail. This ...