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Recently, my mom spotted a robin's nest outside her kitchen window, inspiring us to research their behavior. Last week, we learned that the parents can craft as many as three new nests during a single mating season, dads raise the babies once the mom is incubating the next eggs, and couples return to the same spot to repeat the cycle year after year. We researched the different calls and what scientists think they mean. We've graduated to interpreting the songs ourselves.Ā Yes, that's the baby cry!Ā Since researching robins, I feel more connected to and curious about the species I see daily. And it makes me feel closer to home.Ā
She texted me this picture and said:Ā My morning started with my binoculars observing the baby robins learning to fly and find food with their mom, she brought snacks lol. One has been getting into trouble. She just chased it down from a tree. The one on the far left. She is chasing them around.
She texted me this picture and said:Ā My morning started with my binoculars observing the baby robins learning to fly and find food with their mom, she brought snacks lol. One has been getting into trouble. She just chased it down from a tree. The one on the far left. She is chasing them around.
Jul 24, 2025
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š¦Recently, Nicole and I have spent our lunches on the back deck listening to the birds, learning them by their calls, and watching them go to the many feeders weāve set out. Thereās this app called āMerlinā that you can leave recording, and itāll identify all the bird calls it hears. The other day got a great look at a āgreat crested flycatcherā through the vortex vipers. Weād spent the week hunting him down, hearing his call but never getting a glimpse. Finally getting that sighting was rewarding as hell.
Jun 1, 2023
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š¦It's always fun to get out into nature and watch them live and enjoy their time (as well as interrogate my own role in nature in the process)
Jun 11, 2025
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My neighborhood family of deer still visit regularly. The young buck is growing little antler nubbins š„¹ā¤ļø
every day since my overgrown lawn has been tamed my resident backyard squirrel runs around, lightly digging and foraging for acorns. it's been a treat to watch him through my office window as he explores!!
The chipmunks chatter up in the trees and throw acorns down at my dog because they hate his ass. I love looking up and seeing if I can pinpoint their location in the branches by their sounds it makes me feel so in tune with nature.
My father gave me binoculars as a gift before I really had occasion to use them and I need to find them and bust them outā¦
The chipmunks chatter up in the trees and throw acorns down at my dog because they hate his ass. I love looking up and seeing if I can pinpoint their location in the branches by their sounds it makes me feel so in tune with nature.
My father gave me binoculars as a gift before I really had occasion to use them and I need to find them and bust them outā¦
Sep 18, 2024
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š±I was completely ignoring screen timers until I had someone else set the password. Now Iām actually locked out of social media and I donāt have to pay another service for app limits. I originally had the screen time capped to an hour and a half a day for ig, youtube, and tiktok, and Iāve been able to lower that down to a half hour. So you donāt need to quit all at once.
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Every summer, I yearn for an adult version of the elementary/middle school reading log homework. Public library summer reading bingo (with prizes!) has cured me. Bonus points to the King County Library System for using the same Seattle-based artist (@oddrabbits on ig) to design the adult, teen, and kid bingo boards. If anyone has recs for any of the categories, let me know! So far, I've checked off: grief, author from another continent, new-to-you format, humor, read in public, monsters, BIPOC non-fiction, and buddy read.