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Adventures with bird feeders
When I moved to West Seattle last year, I wanted to put up bird feeders. But I didn’t know anything about them. For many years I lived in urban neighborhoods not at all suited for feeders. My old...
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Sizing up songbirds: My favorite trick for identifying birds
What’s the first thing you notice when you glimpse a strange bird? Not too long ago, I didn’t know a black-capped chickadee from a Dark-eyed Junco. Of course, I knew a hummingbird when I saw one, and...
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The Canon Rebel and the Zen of Bird Watching
I am a photo birder. Though I’ve gotten better over the last year (mostly from learning what to look for) I’m still a little weak at “on the wing” identifications. I have photographs (not always good...
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Timmy!
When we moved into this house — last summer — there were pigeons in our attic. Timmy’s “parents” — at least the seemed to be caring for him when we moved in. We didn’t know it was pigeons at first —...
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Game Show Pigeons and Ball Playing Dogs
You have to bear with me for a second, but this will get around to birds, I promise. Timmy, my resident “special needs” pigeon. Over at Sciencewriter.org (possibly the coolest domain name ever),...
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A Busy Day at the Bird Feeders
Yesterday, in the afternoon, the sun came out unexpectedly after a cold, rainy weekend. The yard was glistening in a way that I usually associate more with spring than late-summer-fading-into-Autumn....
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Where to from Here?
It’s been about six months since I started this blog — it seems so much longer. Spring (which never really got on its feet this year) was just “heating up” back then. There were Flickers and...
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Anna’s Hummingbird
[Today's post marks something new from Birdland West. I want, from time to time, to post experiments in fictional technique, short stories or sketches that attempt to bring more of the non-human world...
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Accepting the Birds that Come
It is currently 39 degrees and sunny in Seattle, but I’m sitting here at my desk in a heavy coat because my dogs want to have access to the front deck. Sigh. Long ago, when I was an art student,...
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Where You Least Expect Them
short hair teen gape After a protracted struggle (it actually snowed on St. Patrick’s Day at my house!) Spring seems to be gaining the upper hand around Seattle. The last few days have been wonderful...
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