Flower Hill Farm Retreat has a new website and and a new blog. Warblers and other songbirds continue to return to our gardens, fields and forest and some of the females are still busy building their nests just as we are nearly finished building this site. It is live now but still missing a few important details that will be installed very soon. This female warbler or vireo has me stumped — is she a Yellow-throated Vireo or a female Magnolia Warbler? The broken eye-ring and the larger beak … [Read more...] about A New Website For Flower Hill Farm Retreat
The Closing of 2013 ~ Gathering Moments Past Pixels and Pages of Wildlife
As Twenty-thirteen comes to a close, I happily begin my annual series of sharing precious highlighted encounters with wondrous wildlife here on my farm . . . from the days, months, pages and frames of this last year, pixels will emerge revealing a shared wildness reaching inwards as it dances in the breezes gently floating through fields and forest. Plant, flower and tree memories will also resurface in the upcoming weeks . . . a lovely way to nurture the imagination and keep its rich soil … [Read more...] about The Closing of 2013 ~ Gathering Moments Past Pixels and Pages of Wildlife
A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand. Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts. I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . . offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might … [Read more...] about A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand.Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts.I have a new installment of my 'A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden' up over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens.The Black-and-white Warbler joins the lively bouquet of warblers . . . offering its striking plumage to the arrangement of songbirds. I hope you might click … [Read more...] about A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse
Hummingbirds and Grandmothers Migrating South
Like many birds, and some butterflies, I have headed south for a spell but will be back long before the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds featured below reach their overwintering sites in southern Mexico and northern Panama. Some individual Ruby-throated hummers may decide it is best to spend the winter along the Gulf Coast or the Outer Banks of North Carolina . . . perhaps they are not up to making the longer journey and their survival will depend on how deeply the winter sets in. Going back to … [Read more...] about Hummingbirds and Grandmothers Migrating South
