Tag: ecology
member name: Mary H.
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February 20, 2009 09:57 AM EST --
In Birdland Spring teases us with the bright blue skies and occasional warmish breeze. Last week I saw a robin as I carried seed out to the aviary, and my daffodils are sending up green shoots, almost . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
In Birdland Daylilies have their green-bean buds, but no shot of orange yet, Black-Eyed Susans are still all fuzzy, gangly stalks of leaf. In a week, Yellow will be all the rage, but for now we have the . . .
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January 22, 2009 10:54 PM EST --
The axe I bought last week has a fiberglass handle and a special built-in wedge, so that if it gets stuck in a log I can hit the back end with a sledge hammer and split the wood open that w ay. It has . . .
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July 31, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
Ghost lilies are haunting Birdland. I noticed them blooming in town last week, and knew ours were not far behind. Do you know about Ghost Lilies? They are the pale pink wild cousins to Amaryllis, and . . .
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January 10, 2009 11:20 AM EST --
It is 2,181 miles from Birdland to Seattle. Today it's 42 degrees there, and cloudy, with showers in the forecast. I have to think about these things, when I imagine my boy, who just said goodbye . . .
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May 08, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
Is it me, or does everything speed up in the springtime? In Birdland the lilacs are already gone, mostly turned brown, the lovely scent evaporated. All this rain has made everything a deep jade green, . . .
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April 24, 2009 11:49 AM EDT --
This week in Birdland listening to a post-apocalypse story on audio book as I drive, and an adventure in the depths of the well pit has me thinking about culture and dependence. Thursday morning the water . . .
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May 01, 2009 11:47 AM EDT --
Man, I hope my editor understands why my column is late this week! Last week's well emergency put me back on my chores, and I never got to the laundry. Despite overcast skies I am determined to stop . . .
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March 13, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
Aren't spring shoots amazing? Pushing up out of frozen, grey earth, shouldering aside clods, each shoot with a different shape. A rosette of green tulip leaves is tinged with red, each leaf like the . . .
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April 03, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
Birdland is fresh with spring green and sprouts. Tiny, dicots polka dot the worn spots in the yard, and I wonder what kinds of weeds I might be pulling in the next few weeks. My seeds arrive d in the . . .
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April 10, 2009 10:11 AM EDT --
Birdland is damp and overcast today, and the ducks are happy. They wandered off somewhere this morning and I was just sure that they were gone—carried away by a sneaky predat or or lured away by a handsome . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:54 AM EDT --
Abundant rain and a broken lawn mower make Birdland a lush place. The red peonies are blooming an d they’re so beautiful it almost hurts to look at them. I haven’t seen my first frog yet, . . .
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October 01, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
It's chilly in Birdland, and gets dark early, and the light comes late in the morning. Almost time to plasticize the coops. The quince is turning golden on the little tree, each heavy fruit weighing . . .
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October 08, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
I was hoping to spend my afternoon digging day lilies to transplant along the new path to the barn. The path is only imaginary still, but it's vivid in my mind. My experimental plan to mow only . . .
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March 20, 2009 12:21 PM EDT --
Birdland is three daffodils and a bouquet of crocuses closer to Spring. The new chicks arrived safely on Monday and are doing well in the temporary brooder in the aviary. I walk around the yard and survey . . .
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April 17, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
Birdland has been in a state of suspended anticipation for a while. The asparagus is shy this year. Though I search for shoots, I don't even find the tiny, new ones hidden in the grass. The peonies . . .
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May 22, 2009 09:20 AM EDT --
Does your town or neighborhood have a small, local paper? It could be a daily paper or a small town weekly. Do you think your community would enjoy reading Letters from Birdland?
Why not write or call . . .
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October 29, 2009 12:24 PM EDT --
In Birdland we have one foot in Autumn, the other reluctantly stepping out of Summer. The abundant rain keeps the grass green, and the corn in the fields, but the leaves are turning yellow, filtering . . .
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February 13, 2009 10:05 AM EST --
We've had such extreme weather in Birdland, as if February were running through several months in one week, giving us a preview of April. Just when I began to think we were digging into another ice . . .
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November 05, 2009 02:40 PM EST --
In Birdland we finally got some sun, and they've harvested corn in the west end of the farm. The time change brings on an early evening, but it's been warm and sunny in the afternoons and I spend . . .
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