The City E-Zine

I’ve previously  posted up a couple updates (here and here) in regards to the earlier discovery/progress of the two Anna’s hummingbird chicks nested in the laurel tree overhanging our Silver Lake frontyard, but there’s been a whole bunch of some serious pint-sized tragedy and triumph…

So back at the end of May I posted about the tiny  Anna’s hummingbird nest my sharp-eyed wife Susan found high up in the laurel tree that spreads over our front yard, and since then I’ve been keeping tabs on the momma as she patiently awaited her chicks’ arrival.
Sure enough they busted out of their [...]

A nesting pair of Hawks has adopted my neighborhood to raise its brood.  They are swift hunters.  They are slowly ridding us of non-native or pesty birds and rodents.
We heard the shrill scream of a hawk going in for a kill outside our living room the other night.  Lo and behold….squab (which is just fancy [...]

Sharp-eyed that she is, my wife Susan found the tiny Anna’s Hummingbird nest built upon a branch no thicker than an index finger high up in the camphor laurel tree whose boughs spread across our front yard. And so of course I brought out the camera to capture its occupant as she came in for [...]

Here’s the thing about alligator sex: It’s weird by mammal standards.
See, mammals like you and me have what evolutionary biologists like to call a “ding-dong” and a “what-what,” and the way we mate is that we put the two parts together until one or both of the participating parties (OK, usually just one) has a [...]