I can't believe it's been 5 days since I blogged and tomorrow is July already. Since I have water in my tanks and theorize that when...

Today was a scheduled banding day at CMO. We took down or covered up all the feeders except the ones inside the traps. While the hummers gen...

Well, it seems the Western Kingbird nesting is no more. I think something got the female on the nest in the night, probably a Great Horned O...

I write the names of expected visitors in my pocket calendar. For today I had written "Kleggs." I watched and waited and no one sh...

This morning I saw the female Lucifer Hummingbird with all the gorget feathers. She's the one who starred in Ron Cook's awesome cou...

I found a pair of earrings I'd been searching for since late April. A visitor had lost them here, and was quite distraught to have lost ...

I was so overwhelmed with pumping water from my dirt tanks into the concrete tanks, working on the road, then having a Sulphur-bellied Flyca...

I was busy pumping water, cleaning out a ditch, etc., but sat down to chat with some visiting birders. As we were talking, a Western Wood-Pe...

It started to rain hard around 2:00 PM. Before it even stopped I rushed out to see if my tanks were filling up. The upper dirt tank filled u...

 Yesterday I had a long soaking rain that added up to nearly half an inch.  Normally, I just get visitors during spring migration, and not...