On Memorial Day, my buddy Jerry Barrack and I walked around the Celery Farm in hopes of getting a

      Starting Tuesday, I will post a series of short videos on the amazing Ace family — a pair of

  It's snake season at the Celery Farm — particularly on sunny days.    Most important thing to know: They

This 40-second video was shot this spring, when Mrs. Ace was sitting on five eggs and Mr. Ace had to

   Pat Cooper, a friend of this blog, was inspired to write a poem based on one of my posts

       Let me tell you about the five screech owl eggs that rest snugly in the nesting box

     Mrs. Ace is a fast worker this spring — four eggs in eight days vs. four eggs in

    I awoke early this morning to find two screech eggs and a dead little critter.  Since it was

  Very early the other morning, I activated the nest-box cams to see if Ace (or Mrs. Ace) was in

  When a crew cleaned out the wood-duck boxes on Lake Appert this winter, they found this screech owl scrunched