Life of a Catholic Librarian

Long time readers of this blog may know that I really love birds. I love listening to them, I love watching them, I love observing their fea...

Hello all, and welcome to a jam packed edition of: Today I talk about July novenas, my summer knit-along progress and holiday crafting l...

Signs that spring is officially here: (1) I'm no longer wearing my cute LLBean Storm Chasers to and from work and have started wearing m...

...but it's hard for me to tell, since I can hardly see straight I'm so tired. Last night was another Hall of Famer "We'll ...

This morning, as I readied for work, I heard a bunch of commotion out of one of our bedroom windows. I'd been hearing a lot of cooing ou...

We've had some cute birds at our feeder lately. This time of the year, many chicks have been "fledged" from the nest, and are ...

My little boy is getting so big, isn't he? Precious dumpling. He looks more and more like a big boy everyday, and not a toddler anymore....

I've been enjoying the increased level of bird activity lately in our neighborhood. Over the winter, we will continue to see Northern Ca...

The other day, I woke up and heard a very distinctive bird call: that of a breeding male black-capped chicadee. It sounds just like someone ...

The campus that I work at has some new residents - baby peregrine falcon chicks. These birds are an endangered species in our state, and th...

To me, that is. Yesterday, I caught wind of a bird I've never seen before spotted on campus. Naturally, I grabbed my binoculars and drag...

As I've mentioned in the past, in contrast to most everyone else I've ever met, especially in the area in which I'm located in t...

For most normal people, preparing to go on vacation means that they pack sunscreen, their bathing suit, and put their carry-on toiletries in...

I'm still miserably sick, but I observed a very entertaining bird spectacle this morning that I thought was worth writing about. I was p...

I recently viewed a film called Winged Migration, a chronicling of migratory birds on a full cycle of their spring and fall migrations. It w...

Chris takes out his portable CD player with speakers to try and entice a Pileated Woodpecker to humor us and show itself. He has a CD of rel...

It was a busy weekend. I've been excellent on my diet (running on the weekend really seems to spur things along) and have lost 5.2 poun...