Birds have always liked to stop and rest on the window unit hanging from the front window. Once they perceive their reflection in the window they usually stay for a while. They’ll chat a bit, posture, make a display with their feathers, and in the case of road runners, even peck at the window in …
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A Hill Country Boxing Match
The couple who sold me this property years ago used to feed raisins to a large road runner that they called “Big Tex”. Over the years i’ve spotted a roadrunner here or there and even found a broken road runner egg next to one that was unfertilized and didnt hatch. It seems the inhabitant of …
My Porch Garden/Thawing Station
When the weather is hot outside i use the porch plant cages as a makeshift counter to thaw things from the refrigerator or freezer. Chickpea Flour and melted vegan butter into a ziploc freezer bag…quail and quail blood straight into bag…add a little bit of soy sauce…onto the parchment paper. No bowl was used to …
If You Build a House on Sand…
Unfortunately this bird chose the wrong location to erect her nest. There is a spot where one gutter opens out onto a metal roof and then another gutter continues beneath it. This bird thought the open mouth of the gutter tube looked like a great place to build a nest. It was sheltered from the …
Someone Hatched
So i dont have any baby birdies in any of the dormant and unrecycled nests on my property this year. however, they continue to hatch out there in the world. Somewhere, the inhabitant of this egg is looking like a little pink alien waiting for caterpillars.
A Road Runner Egg
I found an egg on the ground. It looked like a smaller long and skinny version of my chicken eggs. It was perfectly in between the size of a wren egg and a chicken egg. It was a middle sized egg. I thought, what bird laid this egg? After some quick research i realized it …