Leaf Them There
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 […]
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 […]
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/) […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]