Our kids gave us native trees for our upcoming birthdays! Monica, our New-York based illustrator daughter who was in Manila for a short visit orchestrated the tree-buying, with some help from her Lola’s car, driver, and gardener! The trees came from the nursery of Imelda Sarmiento, the Project Director of Philippine Native Trees 101: Up Close and Personal.
This is the list of Birthday trees from our kids: Continue reading “Happy 49 Trees!”
This is the list of all the bird species we have seen from when we started the farm in June 2012 until the present. So far we have seen 74 species. I only included the ones seen inside the farm. Continue reading “Farm Bird List: June 2012 to September 2014”
Mornings at the farm start very early. And very noisily. No, we don’t wake up to the ti-tilaok (that’s cock-a-doodle-doo in Pilipino) of a rooster. We wake up to a dawn chorus! Wild birds sing with extra gusto and energy first thing in the morning. Birders call this phenomenon a dawn chorus. Continue reading “Good Morning, Birds!”
A plague of flies! Right after Typhoon Glenda, we noticed a LOT of flies at the farm. We would be eating in the kitchen and there would be 10 flies on the window screen trying to get inside. Eww. Continue reading “If Only They Were All Butterflies. But No, They’re Flies.”
Tonji and Sylvia's Wildlife Refuge 