Birds and Windows
People in glasses houses, besides not throwing stones, also need to find ways to mitigate the needless avian deaths caused…
Tag: Birds
Inanimate Birds
While there is still plenty of house/land stuff to keep us busy, sometimes it’s nice to have a scheduled activity…
Quick Beaks and Quick Fixes
One of the reoccurring issues we’ve experienced has nothing to do with the ineptitude of the previous owners but instead…
Downward Facing Birds
I setup one of the trail cams pointing downward at the water bowl outside the kitchen. This is the same…
At the Birdbath
Yes, I’m still very behind on posts, but I really am working on that — albeit very slowly. On the…
Touching up some leaves
Shortly after the floors were done and the boys had been moved back into their pace, I also retouched the…
Eating things one should not: Power Cords
Continuing the them of the preceding post, living with two large parrots means sometimes things get eaten…. Shoes are a…
Eating things one should not: Cardboard
Regular readers of this little blog know that we have two large parrots that share our world. While Tenar and…
Birds and More Birds
Saturday I took part in an online birding event sponsored by the San Franciso Bird Observatory. It was a pretty…
Shelter in Place
California, like most of the country, is currently asking residents to shelter in place. To be honest, except for the…
Nesting Birds
A post from a few weeks ago covered the story of 10 nesting boxes we installed here at Purgatory well…
Bird houses here at the Purgatory
Finally a story I’ve been wanting to tell for ages but forced myself to get through the backlog of other…
Keeping Me Company
While we don’t often write about them, Tenar and Thy are always part of things here at the ranch. They…
Bonus Post: Bird Herding
We have several tools that we employ to help us herd the boys when they wander into parts of the…
Owlet Video
In the summer of 2017 (last year) we had barn owls nest and raise seven offspring in the stables. While…
Birds and Windows: New Contest @Purgatory
One of the down sides to living in an MCM house is that we have A LOT of windows. …
Owlets
We have a leek in the stables….or at least that is what it sounds like every time Agent Smith goes…