Sunday, April 28, 2013

Bird-Watching


I got to thinking the other day that we must be getting old—all my posts seem to be about watching the birds outside the kitchen window!

Ray has been kept busy using his water gun to keep this one pesky squirrel off the feeders.  The squirrel has come up with so many ingenious ways to get to the birdfeeders no matter how high or far from other structures Ray positions them.  Some days he spends hours just trying to deal with the problem we created by putting the feeders out to begin with.  But all the wildlife is very entertaining.

And it seems that since we bought the yellow-colored feeder, hundreds of YELLOW birds have appeared.  I didn’t even know that yellow birds exited outside of house-bound canaries!
       Ghostly fog over the lake in front of house

 
My 3 Druid crows that visit regularly

 
Our pesky squirrel actually sitting and meditating--probably about new ways to attack the birdfeeders.  He sat there for the longest time with one little paw over his heart. 

 
Mr. Cardinal




Mrs. Cardinal, nicknamed "Tufty"



View on the evenings of sunny days out one of the living room windows

 
Family of Canadian Geese visiting right now--sadly the mother of the 3 teens is hobbling around like one of her legs is injured.  The husband looks at her some times with such concern.

 
...and he made it--quite a jump and hanging in mid-air, but he did it