Down in the Four Corners area, the BLM and Federal agents have been on a campaign arresting people who’ve looted Anasazi sites on public land. Today’s Denver Post has an article on a couple in Durango, Colorado who have had their collection confiscated. An article from last month also in the Post, paints a broader …
Author: Reid Farmer
Feeding Frenzy
The last couple of weeks, the hummingbirds have really been hitting the feeder hard. We’ve gotten up to a dozen at a time, but they move so fast that this is about as many as I’ve been able to get in one shot. It takes them about four days to empty the feeder. We’ve had …
Ponderosa Pines
I heard this interesting piece on Ponderosa pines on NPR on the way to work earlier this week. It was taped in that beautiful area in Arizona between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon, which they say is the best place in the world to see Ponderosas. All I have to do is walk out the …
Chimney Rock – A Chacoan Outlier
Here’s an interesting report on this year’s excavations undertaken by the University of Colorado Field School at Chimney Rock, an Anasazi site near Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Chimney Rock was a colony planted in the 11th century AD by groups from the political/cultural Anasazi center in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Steve Lekson, a Chaco expert on …
Tamarisk Eradication
Tamarisk is an invasive plant that takes a terrible toll on the environment here in the Southwest US. Almost exactly two years ago, I had a post about studies for a plan to introduce Asian beetles here that prey on tamarisk in its natural environment. The concept is that these tamarisk-eating Diorhabda beetles will if …
Bombers in Ft. Collins
Yesterday, Connie and I drove up to the Ft. Collins – Loveland Airport where the Collings Foundation had an exhibit of three flyable WWII combat aircraft: B-17, B-24 and a rare two-seater variant P-51. You can see the B-24 in the pic above. For a nominal fee you could walk around and clamber through the …
Passerina amoena
This little lazuli bunting has been tormenting me for the last six weeks or so. A dazzling bright blue bird, he is extremely shy and tends to come up to the deck right around dusk, when light conditions are very dicey for a decent shot. Yesterday’s effort is the best I’ve been able to get …
Trapped!
Sunday afternoon I heard a loud buzzing noise coming from the living room, and found this broad-tailed hummingbird had flown in through one of the french doors. He was totally disoriented and trying to fly through closed windows. I opened doors and windows and tried to shoo him out. He flew up to the top …
Happy Anniversary
I guess we got busy and lost track, but Friday was the fourth anniversary of the Querencia blog. Matt here: I had this line tagged on to the above post but given Reid’s notice of our “bloggiversary,” I think it should better go in this one. “…I’m happy to think our Querencia blog represents the …
Suburban Wildlife
At lunchtime today when I was walking over to the burger place, I saw these goose families on a play date in the neutral ground between the hotel parking lot and the ice-cream place. Soon after I got there, the gardener came though with his noisy aeration machine and sort of broke things up. Time …