Robins love plastic. I see more of these nests every year.
Plastic: The Ever-Popular Choice
Gardening and Water in The Time of Covid-19
Clouds and rain are not what they seem in a climate that is able to vacuum it up into the sky as quickly as it falls! Everyone’s giving gardening a whirl these […]
Robin Meets a Landscaping Mistake And Makes the Best of It, Gasp
So, plucking the haws, that’s the easy part. But they’re freaking ornamental haws, right, and they have weird stem bits. And even without stem things they’re too, gasp, cough cough, wheeze, big. […]
The New Year Begins in Its Own Sweet Time
About a week ago, really. It’s quite settled in now and has its eye on us. And at the very last, the old year shows us her hidden beauty. And her new […]
Living with Technology
When all the trees are gone, technology can fill the gap. Mason Bee Nests in Plastic Here’s a rainbird sprinkler, named after a robin, with a robin, that loves rain, using it […]
Not Quite a Lonely Vigil
Someday the rowan berries are going to be ripe. Until then, there’s a robin waiting, still, as he was at first leaf. But now, not alone. A hummer! I’m […]
After You Leave the Nest, What Then? Build a New Nest!
So, you get kicked out of the nest, right? Luckily, there are cherry trees. You can hide. Robin Fledgling Without a Nest to Go To You can wait there for the world […]
Robins Are Art
Great choreographed staging. Here’s a female. Here’s her guy.The next person who comes along and says that art is a human artifact, I tell you, I’ll take them for a walk. That’s what […]
The Poetry and Science of Flight
I am trying to learn how to read. So, I’m standing in the middle of the road hoping no car will come. I’m doing this because it’s time for the last birds […]
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