Cascade Ramblings

I took this photo this morning of this female House Finch moving in to her nest in a Teddy Bear Cholla.   It’s hard to imagine finches bein...

The European Starling is the latest addition to the CRITTERS of Cascade Ramblings.   You may be surprised as I certainly was that I didn’t...

We have been invaded by a flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds for the last three days.   This rounds out our Blackbird Family of birds to four wh...

Scorpionweed is now also starting to bloom.   Although actually a weed as the name implies, in the rather drab environs of the desert any c...

Every day I have been checking on the Beavertail Cactus looking for the first blossom, today was the day. Yesterday afternoon there were on...

The last I wrote of Mr. & Mrs. Vermilion they had flown the coup so to speak, or maybe eloped to Las Vegas.   Well, they have been back ...

We invited our campground neighbors Tom & Marlys Imhoff to participate with us in the Great Backyard Bird Count . It’s a four day event ...