Notes from a Lazy Urban Homesteader & Amateur Naturalist
I saw this cutie a few days ago while walking by the lake. It’s younger than the previous juvenile ring-billed gull I wrote about last week, just a few months old and getting ready for its first winter. Read more …
I promised you a juvenile ring-billed gull yesterday, and now I’m delivering. Ring-billed gulls take three years to reach maturity and have fascinating variations in color and pattern as they mature. Read more …
On our walk today, we passed something fluttering in the grass. It was a blackbird chick demanding to be fed. Its father — or some random adult male blackbird for all I know — complied. But he changed angles faster than I could change my focus. I had to take a picture anyway, since I’ve never seen a red-winged blackbird feeding … Read more