Our new book, Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds is a Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient! Birds, nature and the relationship between a grandma and her grandchildren are the theme of Carl and Jean’s newest children’s book. Carl and Jean take kids on a journey into their own backyard where birds and critters [...]
Chickadees in winter are fun to watch. We tend to assume they are warm and comfortable. I found this informative article, “Chickadees in winter” from OregonLive.com, that makes the point that chickadees are struggling to survive during winter. The article states that chickadees lack the heavier feathering of other wintering birds and are more susceptible [...]
Have you every wondered how animals survive winter? According to the article “Animals have differing ways of surviving winter”, in the Springfield News-Leader online at News-Leader.com, animals survive bitter cold days by storing up food, growing thick coats or simply sleeping through it. To prepare for winter, animals store up energy reserves. In addition to a [...]
Yesterday I decided to move a bird feeder over to our blossoming magnolia tree. Only a few birds came in but I was lucky enough to capture this image of a chickadee looking for places to hide seeds. (taken with Canon 5D Mark II with 100-400 canon zoom lens at 1/1250 of a sec at [...]
