Letter From the Desert: Say's Phoebes

Photo by Jessica Kirkpatrick on Unsplash

For the past three months we’ve had a pair of Say’s phoebes nesting a foot from our front door, on a two-inch ledge above our dining room windows. We don’t use that door much in the warm part of the year anyway, and with the mesquite gone, along with its shade and transpired water, we will likely use the door even…