Hummingbird feeder project delayed

January 14, 2012

Alas, my hummingbird feeder project has been delayed. Right after I wrote about scoring a hummingbird feeder during a white elephant gift exchange, painters showed up to “touch up” the apartment building and fix the roof. Both of these activities involve a lot of loud talking, ladder dragging, and stomping around on the roof. Basically, [...]

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Gray whale watching bonanza

January 8, 2012

Gray whale watching started December 26th and it’s shaping up to be one of the best whale watching seasons ever! There has been a ton of press coverage, so this post is definitely on the late side. But it’s still worth mentioning in case anyone missed the news or needs a reminder. Volunteers for the [...]

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A hummingbird holiday

January 5, 2012

One of the surprise treats I received during Christmas was a hummingbird feeder! Technically, I didn’t receive the hummingbird feeder as a gift, I stole it from another person who opened it during a white elephant gift exchange. Thankfully, the person who opened the hummingbird feeder didn’t really want it anyway. (White elephant gift exchanges [...]

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Ringing in the New Year with new wildlife books

January 2, 2012

I spent the last week of 2011 in book heaven! It was a wonderful way to wrap up the year and start the New Year with new wildlife books to read and more fascinating information to absorb. Book heaven happens to be Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon. If you love books, you have [...]

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Happy holidays everyone!

December 24, 2011

For a little holiday fun, here’s an ocean animal with some serious holiday flair…the red sea urchin. The spines remind me of a Christmas tree, in a very abstract way, and the red of course is very Christmas. If there was an ornament shaped just like the red sea urchin, it would be a very [...]

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Visiting the Adelaide Port River dolphins

December 23, 2011

Now that I’ve learned so much about the Adelaide Port River dolphins, I would love to travel to Adelaide and go dolphin watching.  But if I actually invested the time and money to travel all the way to South Australia…would I see any dolphins? And do Wave and her pod hang out in the Port [...]

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