More food for the pollinators
The bees, butterflies and hummingbirds have been sipping at the nectar of the Sapphire Blue salvia plants for the past few weeks. Some of...
The towhee and the blueberry shrubs
We observe California towhees all year round in the garden, but this is the time of year when they monitor our backyard several times a...
Oak titmouse in the backyard
What luck to get this shot of the oak titmouse through our kitchen window! These birds are small, yet have very bold, elaborate calls and...
Hooded orioles nesting in the palm tree
We finally are able to observe hooded orioles nesting in the neighbors' palm tree. As you may remember, in an earlier post several months...
Birds finding tasty treats
A brown-eyed bushtit was very busy finding tasty insects on the Penelope rosebush. It is perched on a rose stem eyeing its target. To the...
American robin in the redwood tree
My first sighting of an American robin in our garden! While observing bees in the ceanothus, I heard a distinctly different bird call in...
Birds snacking
Today while I checked the garden between periods of rain showers, I heard a crow cawing. It seemed very insistent, so I looked up and saw...
Backyard blooms for the pollinators
The hummingbird salvia is starting to bloom. The blossoms are such a vivid magenta color, that they add a pop of brightness to the...
rain storms and the garden
Yesterday afternoon, in the midst of the rainstorm, I decided to check out the garden. Just outside of our back door we have a clematis...
Splish splash, two bushtits in the bath
What a delight it was to observe not one, but two brown-eyed bushtits in the birdbath. Although we have seen groups of bushtits hopping...
