A bird looks in the rearview mirror. Plus: ‘One Life’ (2023), ‘Apple Music Live: Kacey Musgraves,’ Billy Strings and Mark Ruffalo on ‘WTF with Marc Maron.’
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Another Week: Number 71
White-crowned Sparrows have stopped by for their annual visit. Plus: ‘STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces’ (2024), and ‘Sergeant York’ (1941).
Scarlet Tanager in our mulberry tree, Racine, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin — This is the first Scarlet Tanager I have seen in the five years we have lived here. The mulberry tree has only recently flowered, so it's too early for fruit. The bird flitted from branch to branch for...
Cooper’s Hawk on backyard birdbath, Racine, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin — A young-looking Cooper's Hawk surveys our backyard from the centrally positioned birdbath, causing quite a stir among all the sparrows in hiding. [includeme...
Oil spills absorbed by donated hair booms: MatterOfTrust.org
Sitting down to work this morning, Amy read me a Facebook post from her friend Dana Boyle, who is looking for a way to spread the word that hair soaks up oil spills, and that hair can be donated to help cleanup efforts in the massive Gulf oil spill off Louisiana:...
Birdwatching: Cedar Waxwing circus at Kenosha’s Kemper Center
The Cedar Waxwing makes for some striking birdwatching, as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology notes: ... the Cedar Waxwing is a silky, shiny collection of brown, gray, and lemon-yellow, accented with a subdued crest, rakish black mask, and brilliant-red wax droplets on...
Goldfinch in, House Sparrow chaos out
We have stopped the madness, and the backyard is much better now. We have cut way back on House Sparrows, and we're touting the American Goldfinch as the bird to feed for Racine's elite, birdfeeding smart set. Goldfinch houses Many readers arrive here after searching...
Backyard gardening: Playing in the dirt
It will yield you brambles and thistles, as you eat the produce of the land. By the sweat of your face will you earn your food, until you return to the ground. as you were taken from it. — Genesis 3:18-19, The New Jerusalem Bible We've been spending a lot of time on...
Hummingbirds and hummingbird feeders
The radio show I work for is in Mexico this week — and so, with luck, is the little bird at my nifty HummZinger hummingbird feeder in the photo above. The weekend after Labor Day, he was right outside my window. As I have mentioned before, Amy and I are backyard...
‘The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill’ (documentary film, 2003)
One of the things I love about Netflix is the concept of the queue. A movie is mentioned on the radio, or we see a trailer, or a friend makes a recommendation, and these titles are all added to our queue. Eventually, they will show up in...
Birding: Backyard birds in Racine, Wisconsin
We have been feeding birds for years, but moving has made a huge difference in the variety of birds that visit us. The apartment in Kenosha was a second-floor flat. We hung feeders outside a couple of windows which attracted mostly House Sparrows and some House...
Cooper’s Hawk in crabapple tree, Racine, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin — A Cooper's Hawk (a member of the goshawk genus Accipiter) perches among crab apples and patches of lichen in our backyard crabapple tree as we photograph it through our kitchen window.[includeme...
Koi pond, zebra doves at Byodo-In Temple, Oahu
Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii — Zebra doves (Geopelia striata) huddle together inside a tiny wooden boat on the shore of the koi pond at the Byodo-In Temple in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park....
Cooper’s Hawk at Kenosha harbor
Kenosha, Wisconsin — A Cooper's Hawk perches in a tree along Kenosha's small boat harbor, observing sparrow activity.
Lake Michigan: Boat and bird at sunrise
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Sport fishing boat and Ring-Billed Gull drift lazily in Lake Michigan at the entrance to the Kenosha, Wisconsin harbor.
Feeding Lake Michigan gulls
Kenosha, Wisconsin — A man feeds bread to Ring-Billed Gulls at Pennoyer Park on Lake Michigan. Please don't do this. Quoting from the article linked above: The rapidly expanding ring-billed gull population has led to...