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Inspired by Dogs & Nature
Don’t worry little one. Soon you will be the most handsome bird in the meadow. Tammie Rogers This is a juvenile Indigo Bunting. His magnificent indigo blue feathers are just coming in underneath the drab brown feathers in which he was fledged. . .… Continue Reading “Ugly Ducking”
Full Transparency: After experiencing a handful of similar queries and criticisms regarding the size of our FarmGoneWild Bluebird houses, another comment landed in my Etsy Shop inbox from someone simply called Joe. I began drafting a response which was, most likely, far more information… Continue Reading “What a Bird Needs”
Where did summer go? Many species have already migrated south. On my recent trip around the farm, I found the silence deafening. The chortle of the Purple Martins, the constant trill-tweet of the Red-winged Blackbirds, and melodies of the Meadow Larks were absent. The… Continue Reading “Migration Forthcoming”
I planned to add these images to the post (Pop Art) that I published yesterday. However, when I was uploading we were under a Tornado Warning with some serious wind and thunderstorms. I think I lost connection and it only published the first four… Continue Reading “Pop Art 2”
I decided to integrate photos that I’ve taken into a Pop Art format. What do you think? ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Images I’ve captured over the past few days to share a little Sunshine! Wild Sunflowers Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly Common Yellowthroat Great Egret Black-eyed Susans Dickissel Bee on Goldenrod Goldfinch Unknown Wildflower Palm Warbler (pulled from May 2023 files) Wild Sunflower Yellow Swallowtail (check out… Continue Reading “Yellow”
I am not the sort of “birder” that travels around looking for specific species. In fact, I only observe & film birds that come to our property. For that reason, I don’t get many of the ‘fancy-like’ birds very often. I spot a Blue… Continue Reading “So, a Heron and an Egret Met at a Pond”
We have a wonderful abundance of Eastern Bluebirds here this season, and many of them are raising their third brood! It’s possible that some are actually working on brood #4! Unless one of the birds has a unique characteristic (like Keller’s blind eye), I… Continue Reading “Three, Maybe Four”
My lens was pointed toward an Eastern Bluebird nest box when I noticed a very small, “whiteness” in the top of an old tree about 650 feet away – at the SE corner of our property. I know distances on our farm because when… Continue Reading “Lucky Capture”
DON’T YOU HATE when you get something stuck to your tongue? This handsome Red-winged Blackbird was in that same predicament. Image #3 is the real evidence of this bird’s uncomfortable situation. Then, just like us he had to try to root it out with… Continue Reading “Got something stuck to your tongue?”
