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Snakes on a (Coastal) Plain

Baby Carolina Wrens, looking perturbed. I had another close brush with nature yesterday. I was sitting in the front yard, watching the comings and goings of the pair of Carolina wrens which have nested in one of my hanging flower … Continue reading

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Tell Me Wren This Starts Bothering You

I have a love-hate relationship with the Carolina wrens who live around my house. I buy them all of these cute little birdie condos, labeled as “Wren House” by the nice people in China who assembled them so lovingly. They’re … Continue reading

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To Save A Mockingbird

I just rescued a baby Mockingbird from underneath our “Cathedral” live oak tree. It’s a testament to how fat, lazy and housebroken my pets are, that there were three cats and bird dog within five feet of the baby bird, … Continue reading

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Oh, sorry. Did I wake you?

“Misery loves company.” That was written by a cat. Cats don’t like to suffer in silence, and they like to have an audience. One of ours, Tallulah, woke me up at oh-dark-thirty this morning, yacking up some disagreeable item from … Continue reading

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Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season – Part the Second

Read “Part the First” of Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season. As early as September 8th, 2004, when Hurricane Ivan was as far away as the island of Grenada, I told my wife that I had a “real bad feeling” … Continue reading

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