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I was walking the pup at lunchtime today. The wind was howling and snow was blowing, but the Labrador doesn’t care. About a mile into the walk, I caught a movement out of the corner of my left eye. I glanced up – expecting a magpie. Instead, I saw a robin sized grey, black and…

My beloved middle daughter (not to be confused with either my beloved youngest or oldest daughter) dug down deep into her genes and found she needs an occasional road trip. She comes by those genes very naturally. I had a major case of wanderlust for a very long time. Career and responsibility have blunted my…

Jan 8 and 9 found us thinking that our luck might be running pretty warm. So, we struck out both days to ‘see what we could see’. January 8 gave up a Great Blue Heron, a Golden Eagle, Northern Harrier, and another first for my daughter- a Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker. We stopped along an agricultural…

Seeing as we had the time- we spent a bit of Jan 2 and 3 trying to improve our year list. We thought, perhaps, if we went up into the hills one more time, we might find Grey Crowned Rosy Finches. They had been being seen on a sporadic basis near a local ski area.…

Calendar year 2021 is over. I’ve herad some folks say that 2022 is going to be just 2020-too. I hope not, but a lot remains to be seen. The pandemic is reving up, not simmering down. I guess we just stay buckled up- the ride isn’t over. So, that means finding solice in nature is…

A few years back, I belive it was the winter of 2017/2018, we had a Redpoll irruption in Helena. Our deck feeder was overrun. at one point i shot a vidoe that showed weel in excess of 300 Redpolls feeding on sunflower seed. This year, we had a smaller irruption- we never went over 125…

The Labrador keeps things active- no doubt about that. A year or so ago I purchased an Apple Watch Series 6. I had been a decade+ long FitBit user, but the allure of tracking a variety of activities as well as having communications functionality (what with two kids away in college and another in High…

This morning was a bit more hectic that is typically the case, so I was a little short on time. My usual 8am ramble is spent in the hills or woods- nearby but removed from most of what passes for urban landscape in my town. Today I went to the fairgrounds. It is close by…

Even the briefest scan of social media shows amazing pictures of gorgeous sunsets, amazing animals, stunning food, clean and tidy homes and yards, etc. Simply put, social media tends to show beautiful people doing amazing things.  We all know that it’s a lie, but we often spend hours wiling away our time and wondering why…

For several years now, I have taken time around the 4th of July to get out and spend time with my daughters enjoying the scenery in our (relative) back yard. We typically get started about 6am. The weather is never really a concern as we know whatever it is doing in the early morning will be…