About 15 years ago, my son and I dug out two back yard fish ponds with a back hoe, to my wife’s surprise. A backhoe. (not in my backyard.) This pond was about 12 X […]
Category: Heron
The Daily Bucket–I Fly to Pieces
I fly to pieces, Every time that I see you preen I fly to pieces, I can’t forget what I’ve just seen. A little one-legged clean-up, You want me to act as if we have no bond You […]
The Daily Bucket–Surburban Serengeti
The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is especially known for its mammoth annual migrations of 1.5 million wildebeests and 250,000 zebras. It’s on my bucket list. But until I make it to Africa, I can […]
The Daily Bucket–The Artichoke Frog
I ventured out into a crisp Autumn morning with my camera. This was the first year we’d successfully grew artichokes in our backyard and I wanted pictures. After harvesting a half dozen ‘chokes from the […]
The Daily Heron Bucket
At 8:59 PDT, a Great Blue Heron glided from a nearby roof into my backyard, next to my gold fish ponds. Every few minutes there is one less fish. I never should have named the fish. The […]
The Daily Bucket–Live From The Heron Feeder
The Great Blue Heron abruptly appeared at my back yard this morning at 10:13, and promptly ate two large goldfish in two minutes. Good bye, Goldie. It strolled to another spot on my ponds, and […]
The Daily Heron Bucket
At 5 am, the heron seems to take form out of the backgound grey half tone morning skies. It approached from the east, and plopped next to my backyard pond. Billy the Heron swiftly captured […]
The Daily Bucket–The Belly Flopping Heron
For over a decade, Great Blue Herons have visited my backyard ponds in NW Oregon. They’ve eaten some of my goldfish, driven away all of the hated bullfrogs, and provided many viewing hours of their […]
The Daily Bucket–Take-out Orders from the Frog Mitigation Area.
Herons are taking fish and frogs “to go” out of my backyard ponds, for trips to their nearby nests. I watch a heron go after the goldfish in the ponds. It will eat and swallow the first fish, […]
And a 16 Year Old Shall Lead Them… In the Fight for DACA.
Lucy Siale, a 16 year old Bay Area resident, called for, organized and MC'ed Oakland's 1000+ strong DACA rally yesterday, Saturday, Sept 9th at Oscar Grant Plaza. x Lucy Siale, the organizer of the #DACA […]
