Backyard Spectator

A journal of outdoor observation, written in response to the simple act of paying close attention for an hour a day to the natural sights and sounds of an ordinary backyard in Decatur, Georgia, or wherever my travels take me, with the intention of recording the single most interesting perception of the hour. The challenge has taught me to expect the unexpected!

Saturday, June 10, 2023

What IS This?

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Anybody know?  Spied in the grass today not three feet from my feet while "longsitting" on the backyard swing for my daily hour. C...
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Monday, June 5, 2023

Bluebird Nestwatch 2023

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In the spring of 2021, an unknown predator, likely a raccoon, possibly a hawk, ate a nest full of four newly hatched bluebirds from the bird...
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Saturday, May 6, 2023

Poor Thing

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I honestly thought he was injured, when I saw him through the kitchen window.  He was lying on the floor of the deck, writhing pathetically,...
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Saturday, March 11, 2023

Photo Bomb Cardinal

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 "How strange   that Nature does not knock,  and yet does not intrude."                                                           ...
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Sunday, March 5, 2023

Backyard Lesson Learned Again and Again

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How I missed the big thing beside it, I can’t imagine, when first I bent to investigate the small thing I saw in the leaves.  I even congrat...
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Saturday, November 5, 2022

Ode to Persistence

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We finally found the solution to our mama raccoon’s nightly marauding of the birdfeeders. It’s no small effort, but we bring the feeders ins...
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Saturday, October 15, 2022

What IS That Grotesqueness?

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Traditionally, most of us associate awe and wonder with the beauty of the ocean, but yesterday’s walk on the beach  (where we’re vacationing...
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Sunday, October 9, 2022

The Lure of a Path

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What is there more enticing than a path? And few are as welcoming as the one my daughter-in-law Lisa has created through the woods behind th...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Little By Little...

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I was lucky enough to be visiting my daughters in Vermont from early September to early October, just the right time to watch the leaf extra...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Evensong

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I interrupt my plan of posting progressive photos of Vermont’s leaf change to share tonight’s sunset midway through the transformation… ~dkm...
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Suzuki flute instructor. Backyard birder. Retired early from teaching first grade for City Schools of Decatur, GA and from supervising student teachers at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Now trying my hand at writing fiction for young readers, and recently, at haiku, having read up on Basho. Life is so surprising!
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