Cedar Waxwing Bird in the High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Cedar Waxwing! A very pretty bird in my opinion and when a flock of these fruit loving birds show up they have a very distinctive call! They sometimes arrive in good sized flocks of a dozen or more to the fruit trees! The Cedar Waxwings seam to like our honeysuckle we […]
Pheasant At My Garden
Previous Next Meet the Pheasant, a common game bird who is found in Oregon as well as many states here in the USA. I believed I made a post about this Pheasant, however guess I just spoke about him in social media not making a blog post about him at all! This Pheasant was living […]
Coyote Approaching in the High Desert
Previous Next Meet the common Coyote ! One thing our area is known for is the Coyote. A wild dog that is not a big dog, though not a small dog either. When heading off from the house I typically tell the son where I am going, or as my parents taught me to do […]
European Hornet
Previous Next Meet the European Hornet! Rather big , flashy insect visiting my Foxglove Flowers. This is the first time I had noticed this visitor here at the house, or anywhere! The first three photographs are cropped. I was not sure what I was dealing with so gave this bee plenty of room! The series […]
honey bee on a bachelor button flower
Previous Next Most folks know of the Honey Bee? If not here is a example of the Honey Bee! The flower the Honey Bee is working on is a Bachelor Button. I make it no secrete that our place comes to life in spring and summer! The HUMMMM of the bee’s of all shapes, forms, […]
Bald-faced Hornet Eating
Previous Next Meet the Bald-faced Hornet. I came upon what I think is the same Bald-faced Hornet on several different days in our garden. This is from one of those days. I noticed something rather large on one of the raspberry leaves, upon further investigation I observed this creature eating. Keeping my distance of about […]
Flight of The Bumble Bee
Previous Next Meet one of my visitors! I have shown other photographs gotten of what I call a bumblebee. This little series of shots taken in June of 2014 are on one of my many Lupine Flowers. My observation of everything around me began as a child as many peoples had. I just never stopped. […]
Spent Some Time With The Yellow-Bellied Marmot
Previous Next Meet the Yellow-Bellied Marmot AKA Rock Chuck. This colony lives on a farm and is protected by the farmer. Speaking with the farmer he told me the colony is out and about and where to find them. Off I went and made me a nice spot to sit down and just watch. Did […]
Sunflowers From My Garden
Previous Next On this day in September of 2014 the day was cloudy. I still got some photographs. The sunflower is a yearly flower we grow for the beauty and for the birds. The colorful sunflower above has the tiny black sunflower seeds that contain oils that the big seeds contain, though not as much […]
Swallowtail Butterflies and The Lily Flowers
Previous Next The swallowtail Butterfly is a larger species of butterfly we have here on our small plot of land. This is about the Swallowtail Butterflies on the Lily Flowers, my first post in this series was “the Swallowtail on the Zinnia Flowers”. From my own observations the Zinnia Flowers are a much more popular […]