Tammie Rogers
Inspired by Dogs & Nature
Category: Nature
Purple Martin Love?
The Purple Martins in our growing colony are building nests inside their community housing options. We have a variety of nesting areas including apartment type houses, and gourds of various styles. What makes one pair decide one type of nest site over the other… Continue Reading “Purple Martin Love?”
Bluebirds Abound!
Work, household projects and the weather all place constraints on my ability to travel around our property to observe the the rejuvenation of life which is occurring, now that Spring has finally stepped up to the plate and shown herself. Over the weekend we… Continue Reading “Bluebirds Abound!”
The Patio Pond is Coming To Life Again
Our first Spring in our new house (2017) we used an old 400 gallon poly stock tank to create a patio pond. We bought eight feeder goldfish at Walmart. They were about the length of my thumb. We added a “toss and grow” boxed… Continue Reading “The Patio Pond is Coming To Life Again”
What a Neat Find
While mowing around our property yesterday, Robert found this antler that was shed by a White-tailed deer. From his perspective, it was an incredible hazard that I might have run over when out on the golf cart, possibly destroying a tire and leaving me… Continue Reading “What a Neat Find”
New Beginnings
A few days ago, Robert and I were traveling around the property doing a bit of birdhouse maintenance when I spotted four Tree Swallows soaring in the high winds over Sham’s Paddock (on our Eastern property line.) I thought it was quite early to… Continue Reading “New Beginnings”
Purple Love
We purchased our first, farm-store Purple Martin house back in 2020. Just days after erecting the red-barn style house, Purple Martins moved in. Since then, each year the number of Purple Martins that come to our place to raise their broods grows. In response,… Continue Reading “Purple Love”
Chickadee
I encountered this Carolina Chickadee couple checking out accommodations for raising their new brood. So cute! I live in the small zone where the Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees territories overlap. The Merlin Bird ID app reports both species vocalizations quite often when I record… Continue Reading “Chickadee”
The Patio Pond
First published as a “page” when I created this blog back in 2019 because, well, I didn’t really understand the difference between a page and a post back then. I’m tidying up my blog and this content truly is best categorized as a post.… Continue Reading “The Patio Pond”
Meadowlarks Sing!
I encountered this brilliant Eastern Meadowlark perched atop a fence post at the edge of one of our…yes… meadows! It’s hard to say whether he’s echoing the other birds’ songs or if he think he’s leading the choir! He looks a bit puffier than… Continue Reading “Meadowlarks Sing!”
