The Big Yard
Ken LambertonNotes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
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The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
July 15, 2026
What a difference a week makes. The monsoon shock of green. Something both visual and audible. I can’t remember the last time it rained every day for this many days, the gauge filling and overfilling. Nearly four inches of ra...
The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
The fountain with a new addition from Warners Nursey in Flagstaff: A trickling pot.
July 8, 2026
Something unexpected. Improbable. Impenitent. More feathered absurdity and astonishment.
Early this week, as I stood in the yard admiring th...
The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
A male “uncommon” Yellowthroat at the fountain.
July 1, 2026
Red flags, fire and wind. June comes to an end and the planet leans into July and the hope of monsoon rain. The kind of hope only fools muster. Because we must, as wildfires plu...
The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
A Brown-crested Flycatcher caught in the act of not catching flies.
June 26, 2026
The brown crusties are making a racket. Early. Before dawn the pair at the nestbox announces the morning pale with their loud, course keeer keeer keeerp fol...
The Big Yard: Notes from a Pajama Birdwatcher
June 17, 2026
Waiting for rain. But finding only betrayal. Like virga—the broken promise of rain.
This morning, a small spotted thrush darts off the porch and lands in the apple tree, then turns toward me and my camera. Swainson’s? I don’...
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