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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s probabl...
- Added: Feb 06, 2020
- Length: 05:01
Whenever I do of my “pictures and stories” presentations I always show some photos of our chickens, followed by photos of some of the wildlife they...
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 05:16
This week, Petey talks about his experience at the March on Frankfort.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:28
There are five species of mistletoe found in Arizona and they all can be found somewhere in southern Arizona at various elevations and on different...
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 05:12
Eumorpha typhon or the Typhon sphinx moth is out and about from June to August in the borderlands. I realized very quickly that we had everything t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 05:10
There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or special wild place that mak...
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 04:51
We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30 years ago…kids and dogs and Christmas trees.
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:51
Can you believe I was whining about rainfall? It’s funny because as Ms. Mesquitey and I were driving to and from Cascabel we talked about coming ba...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:07
Well, first of all I should explain why I set live traps for pack rats (Neotoma albigula) around our little homestead or maybe it needs no explanat...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:16
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably r...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 05:12
The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has big fe...
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 05:07
This show is all over the place. Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of fall blooming plants and leaves changing color on ot...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:14
Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon and through the night. Som...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 05:45
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:37
I sure talk about a lot different flora and fauna. From three species of quail, to canyon wrens, to Yarrows spiny lizards, to bristlehead (Carphoch...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 05:30
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?
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- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.
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- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 28:00
Anisacanthus thurberi or desert honeysuckle is in the Acanthus family, Acanthaceae. I do like the common name cola de gallo, because it captures th...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:27
It’s true that life in southeastern Arizona is full of “behold!” moments. It is so exciting to live in such a diverse land, both in plants and anim...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
Well, the getting out of the growing business thing is not going well at all and I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that that I still need to ...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 18:43
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:37