It’s always a special
day when I see Junior the Great Horned Owl in our tree all day long.
This is a surprise. Thank you, Readers and Booksellers. Thank you, #Barnes&Noble for choosing #TheBackyardBirdChronicles as #GiftBookoftheYear.
What I’m excited to report: Wildcare of San Rafael released into our yard young doves that had been rescued as babies. So happy our yard was chosen because we had adult doves and a reliable food source.
There are no blue pigments in birds. 🙅🔵
How, then, are #Bluebirds… well, blue birds?
The physics of blue feathers, it turns out, can be complicated. ABC Senior Conservation Scientist David Wiedenfeld explains: bit.ly/3CKfFiS. 🪶
What I’m grateful for: family, longtime friends with similar values, Lou’s and my good health, living in a home with endlessly fascinating birds in the backyard, and being licked on my nose each morning by my sweet little dog. Happy Thanksgiving all!
What I notice when drawing birds: the miraculous way their feathers are made up, feathers used to fly thousands of miles twice a year.
Funny! Clearly a made up album cover. What fun!
What I’m doing 32 years after the beginning of the all-author band, the Rock Bottom Remainders: reuniting with Stephen King, getting our photo taken by Mary Karr, before we head to rehearsal at Dave Barry’s house.
Where I am: Miami! Birding at 6:30. A talk on The Backyard Bird Chronicles Friday 11/22. 6 pm. Then playing with the Rock Bottom Remainders 11/23. @8. Mary Karr, Stephen King, and Scott Turow are in the house—or rather the hotel!
I may have that problem. If it does, oas soon as the juvenile doves are acclimated and independent, I will remove feeders for a few days and place curved netting over the. dropped seed area. Many will leave.