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Showing posts with label Blue Jay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Jay. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Getting into gear... sort of

Tuesday was really bad, with torrential rain, 
blustery winds and later thick fog.
That kind of weather always makes me lazy. 
The best thing to do seems to cuddle on the couch, reading. 
Even walking the dog in the rain is not a task looking forward to. 
Molly doesn't seem to bother. Sniffing around is more important 
than a "few" raindrops.
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Wednesday turned out much better. 
The afternoon was downright warm 50 °F (10°C), 
and I spent quite a while outside in the sunshine.
I started to clean up some of my flower beds.
Lots of old leafs had to be removed. 
 See what was underneath:
A new generation of chives is about to wake up!
I like them, not for eating, but mostly 
because of their pretty pink flowers in late fall/early summer.

Some of my crocus survived as well.
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A few birds are also back from their winter retreat.
Same ones as last year (I guess), they look so alike, 
when they visited the feeder I soon as I put it up. 
Nice to have you back, my little friends!
White & Red Winged Black Bird
Common Grackle
Purple Finch
Song Sparrow
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Later I had to stack the woodpile anew, 
it had toppled into a puddle of melting water -UHG! 
It took me at least 2 hours.
Some of the driest wood pieces were moved into the basement.
Did I manage managed to break a bone in the process?
Sure, I dropped a chunk of wood and it happened to hit one of my little toes. 
OUCH! That hurt.
Looks purple now, but is no major problem, I am able to limp around.
That's all from the "battle field" for today!
A Blue Jay at my feeder

Friday, 24 May 2013

Even a Blue Jay needs a bath...

Not much to do when it rains "cats and dogs" as the British saying goes.
I moved around from window to window and looked out at the misery.
Noting was going on in my vegetable garden either. Too cold, too wet.
At times it was POURING!
Some didn't seem to bother with the weather at all. Molly was guarding the bird feeder against the squirrels. In the driving rain. Duty is duty!

A Blue Jay happily took a bath in our paint-roller tray that happened to sit outside and had filled up with rainwater.
Time for a bath!
Action!......
Head first into the water...
for a good rinsing....
Done!
A mourning dove, sitting in our apple tree, was watching that crazy lady with the camera.:))

While doing the dishes I happened to see a movement out in our Hawthorne tree. I run on the double to get the camera and took some shots in a hurry! No time to wait, these birds are so flighty and I had not seen this one around until now. Well, not entirely sharp, but I GOT it!
Yellow Warbler, male
Hubby came just back from a shopping trip and tonight I have the choice: a whole chicken, beef stew or hamburger meat are waiting for attention. I have to come up with something.

The final posting from Spring 2006 is up. Where we finally made it home to Alberta.
The next adventure starts in October the same year. Coming soon.