Posts Tagged ‘birds’
Mr. Toad!
Earlier in the summer a toad was living in between the front door and the storm door. We rarely use that door, so it was a pretty safe place.
But then he almost got stepped on and woke up too early. Since then he is living somewhere else. I suspect under the cat house.
This is where he sits every night unless cats scare him off.
He will in fact switch dishes if the cats bother him… there are 2 other water dishes on the porch. That’s gotta be a shock to a cat going to get a drink, lol! Ack, a toad is using my water as a swimmy pool!
An update on the baby birds: they are gone. I suspect Blue Jays raided the nest. Very sad, but it wasn’t a great place for a nest anyhow.
Drove over to Eureka Springs with my daughter this afternoon. Had a nice visit with Sara of Paper Odyssey, and of course bought a few things. I had a gift silk scarf for her, but then wanted to show her some others, and she ended up buying a big purple one from me… my favorite “galaxy” silk.
Tomorrow my daughter Sarah and I will dye a bunch more silk scarves. They are one of my best sellers at the farmers market.
Oh, and our neighbor gifted me with 2 grocery bags full of cukes. Nice slicer cukes. Looks like I’m gonna be making pickles. He also told me to PLEASE come over and pick veggies. He’s got a great big garden, but it’s just him, and there are enough veggies there to feed a small town of people. I told him he went a bit insane… but heck, it looks like I’m going to get all the veggies I can eat… and I’ll take some to the farmers market to sell. Will give Brent the money. I’ll have to get out there in the morning, tho… heat of the day is no time to be trying to pick veggies!
Well, this is all for tonight…. :)
Baby birds
Here is the nest. It’s in a corner of the front porch, you can see the top of the porch column.
This is a Phoebe nest. There has been a nest there for 3 years, but no one has lived in it… altho I always see a Phoebe Husband trying to move his Wife in there every spring. I didn’t know what kind of birds they were until earlier this month. It’s made of twigs, grass, moss, mud and I guess bird spit, lol! It’s stuck to that corner, not just sitting there…. glued in.
The cats pulled down the previous nest that this pair had decided to move into. The front porch isn’t exactly the best neighborhood for birds, with all the cats that live here. I moved the cat access… and this pair decided they liked the spot and built a new nest.
Well, they laid eggs, sat on em… and they hatched. I kinda figured some babies had hatched… all of a sudden Momma and Papa are flying in and out almost constantly.
So, to get a photo, I had to get a chair. It’s hard to see what’s what, but you can pick out a baby bird beak opened wide. They are fuzzy and ugly right now, and I can’t tell but there are at least 3, possibly more.
That’s from Friday. Birds grow like weeds… very quickly. Today I’m seeing the beginnings of real feathers.
Update Tuesday: I went to take another photo of the babies and the first thing I noticed is that one baby was out, just laying on the ledge. That’s NOT a big ledge, so after snapping the photo I very carefully put him back in the nest.
It looks to me like the poor things are really feeling the heat. It’s in the 90′s out there and no breeze to speak of. I turned the porch ceiling fans on, hopefully that will help cool them a bit.
Today’s photo….
They sure are ugly in a cute sort of way. :)
