Lets Jump Together

The Nature show on PBS featured this great episode a couple of weeks ago.
It was titled: Christmas in Yellowstone.
The photography is superb and the show was a joy to watch.
I am looking forward to when this one is rebroadcast.
The lady who narrated it had the perfect voice and tone as she told of the shortened [...]

The Nature show on PBS featured the Harpy Eagle of South America on this past week’s episode.
Known as the “Jungle Eagle,” these remarkable birds stand three feet tall and have a six foot wingspan.
Their sharp talons are as long as a bear’s claw, and they use these massive talons to catch monkeys and sloths to [...]

The little pieces of chipped tree kept floating down just outside the window by my computer.
It kept grabbing my eye as I was working, so after a bit, I went outside to see what was going on.
There was a perfectly round hole in one of the branches in the tree beside my window.
But there was [...]

I had never heard of of this sport until last night when we were watching PBS.
Noodling is the sport of catching huge flathead catfish with one’s bare hands.
No rod, reel, bait, or equipment of any kind.
Just a man, searching in the holes where these giant fish live, and pulling them out with their hands, usually [...]

I have had a couple pairs of Northern Cardinals around for years.
Their song is as gorgeous as their bright red color.
I find them to be rather timid, and they fly away at the slightest movement or sound.
Each summer they raise their young who are very easy to spot as their feathers are not as bright [...]

Yesterday we arrived home to find a woodchuck smack in the middle of the backyard eating grass.
It didn’t seem too bothered by us, so we watched it awhile before it lazily went back beyond the trees to the neighbors yard.
It visited later in the afternoon, and we then went out to hopefully “scare” it back [...]

They’re back - all those big June Bugs.
Fluttering outside the screen of the open window as they go towards the light I have on beside me.
When the fluttering sound stops, I look at the screen and see about eight of these critters, holding onto the screen, their tiny feet wrapped around the inside.
No, I will [...]