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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
April 22, 2024 Earth Day This morning, the year’s first brown-crested flycatcher announces its arrival in the canyon with a loud, raucous keweerp…
Apr 23
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April 15, 2024 The wind rattles the metal roof and shakes the windows. It strips leaves from the oaks and colors the air with the yellow and gold of…
Apr 16
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April 8, 2024 Eclipse Day Sunlight shakes talcum powder on the landscape. It begins with a nick in the yellow orb. The breezes of the morning now grow…
Apr 9
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April 3, 2024 Half a dozen yellow-rumped warblers swirl around the leaf-rimed apple tree, chasing each other as if they’re playing a game of Cupid tag…
Apr 4
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March 2024
The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
March 27, 2024 The last week in March began with highs in the upper 70s. The chokecherry unfurled leaves and spilled flowering racemes like tiny yellow…
Mar 28
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March 21, 2024 The year’s first broad-billed hummingbird careens in, all orange beak and emerald shine. And then a second male, the two corkscrewing…
Mar 22
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March 10, 2024 There are no birds. Again. My friend—one of the few who knew how to live life well with passion and verve and concern for the smallest of…
Mar 11
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February 2024
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February 28, 2024 At first light this morning, a hermit thrush sips water at the top of the fountain, raises its head and flashes its wings. The bird…
Feb 29
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February 21, 2024 My neighbor, Lucifer’s Mistress, sends me a text: “Female rufous confirmed.” Yesterday, I had asked her where they all were, the…
Feb 22
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February 14, 2024 On the first day in weeks when temperatures haven’t dipped below freezing, the gobblers spread wings and fan tails for the hens and…
Feb 15
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February 7, 2024 Wind, rain, and wood peckery. A small herd of javelina grunts and rummages in the compost pile...again. I should send them on their…
Feb 8
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January 31, 2024 January is the month of the pine siskin. Each morning, dozens of the tiny, streaked finches, along with a handful of lesser goldfinches…
Feb 1
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