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August 31, 2024 - FINCH FEEDER - A female Goldfinch tears into a Zinnia bloom. The Finches are still mobbing the birdseed feeders - but th...

August 30, 2024 - BUTTERFLY EYES - A Silver-bordered Fritillary Butterfly works a Zinnia bloom. Face it...bug eyes, clubbed-tip antennae a...

August 29, 2024 - FISHIN' - Belted Kingfisher hunts from a perch above the beaver pond from where it will dive headfirst to catch small fi...

August 28, 2024 - BEE HAPPY - A Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) takes advantage of a Zinnia bloom.

August 27, 2024 - HUMMMM? - Another "Hummingbird at a flower" photo? Yep! I'm always looking for variety in the daily photo - but things a...

August 26, 2024 - THANKS FOR THE BLO0MS - Our friend Arne gifted us a big Dahlia buib, and we love the blooms. So do the Hummingbirds.;-)...

August 25, 2024 - TOW HEE - Male Towhee at the bird bath.

August 24, 2024 - BLOOMIN' - Our first Sunflower bloom attracts a Silver-bordered Fritillary butterfly.

August 23, 2024 - HERE COMES THE SUN...FLOWER - Sunflower bloom unfolding in the garden.

August 22, 2024 - LITTLE BUDDY - This male Humingbird is on the branch outside our bedroom window EVERY morning when we wake up. It is so...

August 21, 2024 - THRILLA CATERPILLA - We are watching the Monarch caterpillars grow as they munch.

August 20, 2024 - A LITTLE LIGHT ON TOP - An immature female Cardinal with only a single feather for a crown. We'll watch for her to grow...

August 19, 2024 - EFFING COOL - A Red-spotted Newt - the land form of an Eastern Newt - called a Red Eft. Newts have three forms: a larval...

August 18, 2024 - BEE FRIENDLY - A Honey Bee approaches a dew-laden Fennel flower head. The pattern in Fennel flower heads is generated by...

August 17, 2024 - BIG BITE - Young, male Red-bellied Woodpecker with a big bite of suet heads up the tree to stash it. He's just growing i...

August 16, 2024 - PLANT IT AND THEY WILL COME - We plant lovely, orange-blooming Asclepias to attract Monarch Butterflies and Monarch cate...

August 15, 2024 - GARDEN BEAUTY - Cherry tomatoes ripening in the raised bed planters on our roof.

August 14, 2024 - FINALLY A MONARCH CATERPILLAR - A couple of weeks after we saw a female Monarch on the Asclepias plants in the pollinato...

August 13, 2024 - DRINK UP - A male Eastern Towhee drinks from the bird bath. Most birds drink by filling their beaks with water, then til...

August 12, 2024 - SEEDY - A male Cardinal shells a sunflower seed.

August 11, 2024 - NUTHATCH - A Red-breasted Nuthatch still hanging around. Guidebook says they migrate South later in Fall.

August 10, 2024 - HUMMINGBIRD RODEO - We think the Hummingbirds have reproduced...as we are seeing several at a time working the flower be...

August 09, 2024 - PERCHED - An Eastern Phoebe perched - on the lookout for flying insects it can catch on the fly.

August 08, 2024 - HAIRY WOODPECKER - A female Hairy Woodpecker on the Ash tree.

August 07, 2024 - HUMM A FEW BARS OF THAT ONE - Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird resting.

August 06, 2024 - SQUIRREL-Y - Little Red Squirrel chatters from a perch.

August 05, 2024 - BUTTERFLY POWER - A Silver-Bordered Fritillary Butterfly on a Bee Balm.

August 04, 2024 - HUMMER BAIT -Red Bee Balm attracts Hummingbirds. I just sit and wait;-)!

August 03, 2024 - CUTE CHICKS - The Turkey chicks were in the yard again...and these two seemed to be looking for direction for what to do...

August 02, 2024 - ANT BOTHER ME! - An ant on the Hummingbird feeder...does not distract the female Hummingbird.

August 01, 2024 - A TRUE FROG - We like frogs - and have a little landscape pond to attract them. One of our favorite frogs is the Pickere...