Lisa Hutchins
Oct 6, 20232 min read
Noise and Vandalism
This guy. For the last two nights, this lovesick fellow has been just outside our house bugling all night long, seriously disturbing my...
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Lisa Hutchins
Jul 29, 20232 min read
The Baleful Dog Star
"Blazing as the star that cometh forth at Harvest-time, shining forth amid the host of stars in the darkness of the night, the star whose...
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Lisa Hutchins
Jul 23, 20232 min read
How the Collared Dove Conquered America
As I write this in late July, a pair of Eurasian collared doves are calling in my backyard. They've raised a family in the trees behind...
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Lisa Hutchins
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Horse Takes a Sabbatical for Eight Years, Returns Home as if Nothing Happened
Photo by the Bureau of Land Management via Wikipedia You have to love this story. Eight years ago, Shane Adams of Utah was camping in the...
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Lisa Hutchins
Nov 13, 20162 min read
A Tale of a Shrew
We found a shrew in our garage mousetrap. We didn't even know we had shrews in our area, much less that they would come into the garage,...
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Lisa Hutchins
May 14, 20162 min read
Narrowleaf Cottonwood: Aspen's Unlovely Cousin
When we first moved here, we were initially elated and then dismayed at a grove of trees on our property. We had hoped they were quaking...
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