Disappointingly, I've come to the conclusion that my days of serious birding have to be over. Not only because of the energy it requires...

I arrived at the oasis at daylight so as to water before it got too hot. Everything was parched. No water in the tanks, and the solar water ...

This year our apricot tree in Alpine was solid fruit, hardly even any leaves. Biggest crop ever! Bushels! I've been busy picking and giv...

I've been pretty much holed up in town lately since I came down with a bad bout of vertigo a week ago. Trying to get over it. I was near...

I couldn't figure out what "Bonus Bear" ate the last day or two he stayed at the oasis trying to outsmart the electric feeder....

I was at the oasis a couple of days ago and no bear scat (seeded or unseeded) anywhere. No sign of bear. He has moved on.  Migration is stil...

Note: The bear preferred to walk on nails before he'd walk on the ground panels again. His scat is no longer seed-laden, in fact, I look...

On my sister's place adjacent to CMO, there's a Desert Night-Blooming Cereus.*   To our knowledge, it has bloomed only on May 6, 201...

 When we arrived at the oasis at daylight this is what the feeder looked like. We reviewed the one hundred plus video clips taken after we l...

We arrived at the oasis by daylight. The bear had been there during my absence and left another even bigger pile of poop (cell phone for siz...