Male Eastern bluebird Weatherwise, February is usually a dreary month along the south shore of Lake Erie, but this year Valentine's week brought a few birds to the backyard buffet that I hadn't seen in a long while, most notably the beautiful male bluebird and the red-breasted nuthatch pictured above. To be honest, the birds …
Would you believe?
Barely a week ago, we were shivering inside our house, wrapped in blankets to keep warm, as the temperature plummeted to zero degrees and below. Then the weather prognosticators, that is, the experts that should know, predicted a warming trend. We found it hard to believe, but, sure enough, yesterday and today we experienced a …