Jun 9, 2014 | birds & bears
I looked out the big studio window today and guess who was hanging about? About that time a little Carolina Wren came flying from the wood stack there beside the brick column—the one that holds the new bluebird house. And the Papa Bluebird got ALL KINDA UPSET. So in...
May 20, 2014 | birds & bears
I hope you will remember this photo for a long, long time. Take a good look; hold the image tight in your heart where its glory can root and lay claim. It is one of the baby bluebirds, you see, one of the miracle babies, now four days out of the nest. They took flight...
May 14, 2014 | birds & bears
How will you ever write about this Eliza said in a quiet way that made it much more of a statement than a question. We were standing together looking down at the overturned birdhouse, and I could feel her heart breaking right alongside mine. Just a few days earlier...
May 11, 2014 | birds & bears
For fretting, cleaning, protecting, nurturing, feeding, guarding, teaching, watching, loving
May 1, 2014 | birds & bears
There’s been much discussion around my house about the need (or not) to provide mealworms for the bluebirds and their babies. You will recall that’s something I’ve never done, amateur that I am at the entire bird-nesting thing. In fact, the birdhouse...
