The Birds & The Bees

...or maybe a better title is, "when two passions collide".  I dunno. The 2016 purple martin season was my most challenging se...

This has been such an unusual Fall - not at all like the typical windy, cool Falls I've been accustomed to in the past.  I'm beginni...

“The earth has music for those who listen.” ― George Santayana This past weekend as I conducted nest checks (now 79 pair), I listened to...

For the last three weeks, I have been swarmed by sub-adult purple martins as they flooded into my site, harassing the already-established ...

When purple martin landlord, John Miller from St. Louis (who also manages a few public sites in Forest Park), reported a sighting of a sub-a...

As we replenished the mulch in our landscape bed by the house last Saturday, Bob told me to turn and look at who was being nosey.  She was l...

On Saturday, 3/26 it reached 69 degrees on Gobbler's Knob. But with the ever-present Spring wind, it felt a bit cooler - maybe 68 degree...