And they eat acorns! Inspired by my illustrious writer-friend Shoreacres way down in Texas and her most recent blog post about these noisy, black birds, I decided to share with you a recent set of photos, which I posted on Facebook. (Yes, many of you know I’m guilty of falling into, and residing in, that…
This was a very special day for me on this project because my oldest son accompanied me. Nat, the bird biologist, was out of town at some kind of bird bio conference and the day was much too beautiful to not be out on the water checking the nest-box progress. D.W. was on his “off…
DAY 3 Week two of the PROW project happened just one week after we cleaned the boxes in preparation for the males to return from Central and South America. And as we checked each of the 30 boxes around Lake Palourde, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the males had already arrived. We detect…
Well, folks, I had every intention of keeping these posts up to the day, but there really aren’t enough hours in the day to get photos uploaded, edited, and into some semblance of a decent post twice a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I’m whining, but when I started this blog back in 2007,…
So, these were taken this past week in the Mandalay Wildlife Refuge while working on the PROW project. Just a few photos of interesting things I encountered. Enjoy! Until next time, enjoy this spring weather! Get outside and do something exciting, and then let me know all about it! BW
Boating into the Mandalay Wildlife Refuge and cypress areas around Lake Palourde never, ever gets old to me. I’m like a child with a shiny new bicycle on my birthday each time I ride into these magical, mystical waters. Always amazed, enthralled, intrigued, and mystified by what I see. Since I’m also “working” the PROW…