Waiting on a phone call, I took a brief stroll through our Littleton farm on this warm, sunny September morning. I wasn't expecting to observe anything unusual but one never knows.
As it turned out, I encountered the first plumbeous vireo of the fall migration season, watched a mixed group of white-breasted and red-breasted nuthatches storing sunflower seeds in the crevices of tree bark and outbuilding walls and enjoyed the comical antics of a fox squirrel, tip-toeing atop a pasture fence with a large apple in his mouth. Nothing worth a post, some might suggest, but it is my blog!
Indeed, since I have written more than 4000 posts over the past 15 years, I am occasionally asked how I come up with enough material. While there is plenty of redundancy in this blog (hence the Feedback Posts), there is a simple answer to their query: I go outside and look around. The more one pays attention to nature's diversity, the more there is to write about (like a squirrel with his over-sized lunch).
