Author: Paul Stoecker, Ph.D.
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July 13, 2026 – 79 °F Sunny @10:30 AM
A beautiful sunny day today with some good activity at the feeders and the native plant garden doing fairly well. The Black-eyed Susans and the Coneflowers are starting to bloom. My study plant shelf is looking better now that I have planted the natives outside and have “normal” house plants, but I do need more…LOL.…
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July 12, 2026 – 81°F and partly sunny @6:50 PM
The male and female American Goldfinches (Spinus tristis) spend quite a bit of time at the feeders and that delights me. The mail with his vibrant yellow and black feathers just brightens my day. They are supposed to be late nesters, in July and August, so I am hoping that I will see fledlings later…
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July 11, 2026 – 80 °F and overcast @4:47PM
All of a sudden, the bird feeders are alive with activity. The Male and Female American Goldfinches are at the Finch Feeder eating thistle. A House Finch showed up as well as male and female Cardinals. A downy or hairy woodpecker works on the inverted suet cake, and the usual Song Sparrows are at the…
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May 9, 2026
This Saturday as I sat in my study watching the rain fall onto my backyard, I wonder that after having had the bramble removed and with it many invasives, how do I now “fix” it to be more in line with the native flora and fauna? It is something that I will have to work…
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May 2, 2026
My thoughts have turned to the wonderment of life and nature. From a single cell to a full plant or animal is amazing. That we may have all evolved from an Archaea is almost unimaginable, but even more so is the development of a plant or animal from on cell into the trillions. A single…
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May 1, 2026
As I have entered my 60th year on this planet, I have decided that it is time for me to retire. I have had a fabulous career, but it has been filled with a hecticness (if that is a word) and rush that I am happy to leave behind and enter into a more analog,…
