Happy Harvest Blog
Near tragedy
Anyhoo, he was driving around, mowing, and once, right when he came to a stop, I saw the weeds rustle directly in front of his front wheel. As he backed out, I ran to the spot, fearing that a bird had been hit (I'd been paranoid and been tramping through all the weeds in front of him trying to flush out frightened chickens that were used to the tall weeds being a safe zone).
More woodpeckers!
Found another woodpecker tree, and this one has babies in it, because we can hear them. Peep peep peep peep peep!
Fledging day
Premature fledging? The rest of the day was full of low-flying overhead zooms from trees to roofs and back, with clumsy landings. The mother robin shrieked her head off all day, screaming concern or encouragement to the little ones. “OMG! The branch! The wind! People! Veer! No, not there! Ailerons, now!
Chickadee tragedy (?)
The dead tree was snapped off right through the nest! The nest is almost wholly built out of my hair and fibres I recognize from our Icelandic wool blanket and our fleece sheets. Incredible. Basically he felted together a little bowl.
Chickadee mama
We tiptoed over and peeked in. She’s in there! At least eight inches down in a cylindrical hole smaller than a pop can, I saw the top of her little black cap and her beak, looking around. Yay!
Woodpeckers
Found a woodpecker nest! Big tree with two perfect holes carved in it, right where we’ve heard a lot of headbanging industry lately. So they were building a nest.
Robin's nest
We have a clutch of robin’s eggs in the shed. Three nearly hairless little birds, asleep whenever I look at them.I want this robin’s chicks to make it, since I’m pretty sure it was a raven that savaged my barn robin nestlings in BC.
Chickadees
In the first tree I could see the tail bobbing - what is it doing in there? Then it would back out, fly to a nearby branch, and pfft, spit out a beakful of sawdust. Repeat.
Tailpipe swallow
IMGP5242This little bird decided that the truck tailpipe was prime real estate, swooping in as soon as we parked and staking a claim.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
