I was sitting in Steve’s backyard yesterday talking to Dana on the phone and looking around it felt sort of magical – there was a hummingbird buzzing around high overhead, two dragonflies dancing about, a couple of butterflies crossing back and forth, along with some other birds landing on various tree branches. I just have…

I have never seen anything like this! A praying mantis eating a hummingbird!

The other night I was outside on the hill next to my apartment taking pictures (they didn’t come out very well, I’ll have to take more – patience my friends!), and every so often I heard the faint “gobble gobble” of the wild turkeys that I’ve seen walking around. Very odd and very funny to…

Wow, this is absolutely crazy – Journey, the miniature zebu heifer. And real believe it or not.

Last night on NPR, Jon Hamilton did a report on crows being among the smartest of birds. The piece started off by stating that we all know dolphins and apes are smart, but birds? This irritates me a little, because I feel that all animals are smarter than we think, we just haven’t “discovered” it…

This is not necessarily the type of bat I found, there are thousands of bat species and it is impossible for me to know what kind they were. Circa 2002 I recently discovered that my neighbors have bats living in their attic. There home is brick and between the brick and the aluminum molding that…

For several months I had been feeding my little squirrel friend. I would throw sunflower seeds in the front yard and watch him hunt and nibble. He became very used to me feeding him and started to ask for it. For instance, I would be outside or cleaning the house and sweeping the dirt out…