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Hummingbird Races

The hummerbirds put on a grand show, they zip up and down and circle the ranch building and chase each other and buzz me and zzzzip this way and zipppp that way and have a ball.

The Great Chickadee Rescue

There was one life lost that summer, but three saved, and now when I see a little Black Capped Chickadee on the bird feeder just off the porch, I wonder if it is one of those three baby birds that were spared and lovingly hatched by another mother that year.

Blue Popcorn Explosion!

I read an article about creating a Bluebird trail (not those pesky Blue Jays who like to dive bomb you and your pet in spring when you set out to cross the yard, these are a very different bird). Bluebirds are especially pretty, with wings of a pastel powder blue contrasting with a chest full of rusty reds like a Robin’s breast. I set out on that project.