Night owls – Digging
May 15, 2025 I’ve always been a night owl, and right now we have a family of them in the garden. They sleep by day… …and wake in late afternoon, ready to hunt. I get a kick out of ...
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More fox and owl action in the garden
May 12, 2025 I’d seen her, but my husband hadn’t. So yesterday evening, we did a fox stakeout. As the sun went down, we parked ourselves on the front patio, watching and listening. Then — a ...
Owls, lizards, finches, and fox at home in my garden
May 11, 2025 It’s Wild Kingdom in my garden right now. Watching wild creatures make their homes, hunt, and raise their young in the garden hugely motivates my gardening efforts. There’s nothing ...
Screech owl in the box and garden anoles
May 04, 2025 Over the last few weeks I’ve been keeping an eye on the screech owl box in the front yard. A nesting pair has chosen it, and even though I haven’t seen owlets yet, I believe ...
Athena the great horned owl nesting again at the Wildflower Center
April 28, 2025 A great horned owl has been nesting at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for 15 years, laying usually two eggs each spring in a planter niche high on a wall, sheltered by a ...
Screech owl nesting in new owl box
April 15, 2025 We’ve been sadly without a screech owl family for several years after losing our owl-box tree and having to move the box. We actually have two owl boxes now — one in the front ...
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