The Loggerhead Shrike is common, but still a fun sighting when your are out in the field. The first time you find an insect or small reptile stuck on a mesquite spine or a barb wire is always a “what the heck?” moment. Years ago it lead me to investigate the natural history of this wonderful songbird predator or as my friend Peacock calls it, “the homicidal songbird.”
Petey babbles on about the southern sun, long shadows, kinetic art in the house and finally a small primrose. Whew! Oenothera primiveris seems a...
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills...
This the start of my “mud dauber research” as I have much to learn about these wasps that fly around the Mesquitey collection of...
