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Leaf Them There

December 1, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

Tomorrow is yard waste pick up day for my community, the last of three pick up dates. For the last couple days our hearing has been assaulted by the many […]

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Spider Adventure

November 20, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

I found a colorful and fairly large spider while removing the stump from the mulberry in my yard. This is the same mulberry I wrote about earlier this year. (http://www.mercersmusings.com/2017/06/14/mulberry-is-open-for-business/) […]

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Cedar Crows

November 18, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

“You should see  the crows out here!” my wife, Eileen exclaimed. “It is like the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds.” Sure enough, out along the back edge of our property […]

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Little Caterpillar, Big Story

October 2, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

Life brings little pleasures! The other day, Eileen and I took a hike up into Miller Canyon looking for birds. We arrived shortly after sunrise and trekked up to a […]

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Never Stop Learning

July 21, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

Two times this week I had the pleasure of joining some great naturalists out in Delhaas Woods. The first time was for the North American Butterfly Association’s annual butterfly census. […]

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Part II – How to Know Your Local Cicadas

July 18, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

Once I realized that multiple species used my tiny backyard, I became obsessed with know which was which. There are only a limited number of local species I needed to […]

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It is Cicada Time!

July 17, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

On June 28, I heard the first cicada of the year (FOY). It gave a single call. The next day, I heard one more call in the middle of the […]

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Sometimes I Even Share!

July 9, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

On June 29, as I walked through my yard, I noticed the wineberries (Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim.) were about to ripen. In fact, several of them had been eaten. Wineberries are […]

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Whats in a Butterflies or Moths Name?

June 29, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

This is the second part of my blogs on butterfly and their scientific names. For those of you who like my blogs to be stories, think of this as the […]

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What is in a Name?

June 25, 2017February 13, 2018 by Robert Mercer - Comment is Closed

Summer is the time of butterflies and moths. Any sunny day, these sprites can be seen visiting our garden. As I learned the common and scientific names, I became curious […]

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