52 Photos - Week 37 - Wildlife

LOL.  This is so funny.  We LIVE the wild life!  Dogs everywhere.  Crazy dogs.  One that eats paper, fabric, books, towels, silk scarves destined for sale at Habitat for Humanity.  I think that qualifies as wildlife!

Here is a look at the REAL wildlife outside my window.  We live in the city and really don't have much wildlife, so the birdies have to qualify!

 This beauty visits my feeder regularly.  I thought it was a woodpecker,  but my more knowledgeable SonInLaw says it is a sapsucker.

Whatever it it, it is so beautiful.  I consider myself gifted when he visits my feeders.

 This is a juvenile cardinal male.  He is not quite finished molting his baby feathers.  I watched the parents raise these young'uns over the summer.

 This is a female baby from the nest.  I guess, nest mates.

Every year we have 4 or 5 breeding pairs make their homes in our yard.

This guy may be the most interesting.  Locust.  We have them sing in the trees at dusk every day.  Their song is what you hear when you think of the South.

This is actually just the shell, they shed several times a year as they grow into bigger and bigger clothes!

McGee Ate The Chevrons But I Saved The Bird

Yep, he did.  the chevrons from the kit I purchased in Covington at Bright Hopes Quilt Shop a couple weeks ago.  The kit came with something other than what the cover showed, and I wanted the cover quilt!  I went to Red Stick and they matched the exact colors, and I was happy.  Don't you really like that color? It was perfect next to the grey!

But obviously McGee did not want the new color choices.

And he ate two nice holes in the salmon color.  I am hoping that I can cut around it, and not need more. Geez.

A LARGE whole and a smaller hole.  Such a bad bad dog.  At least he didn't ingest any this time.

And earlier there had been a juvenile cardinal boy who must have tried to fly through the big window again.  He was a bit stunned.  In comes McGee!  All willing and ready to help a wayward bird!



I noticed the dogs around the ligustrum bush but it was the high pitched scream that alerted me to something out of the ordinary.  The bird was actually screaming!

I got the dogs inside and grabbed some gloves and captured him, taking him to the neighbor's bushes since they have no animals.  When I got back from the gym and lunch he was gone, hopefully to his nest for a day of rest before he ventures out again.  Although I think his momma has already kicked him out.  He is a big bugger!

And I think I will actually have the rest of the afternoon to sew.

That is until Frank calls me to see what is on the feeder now!  Oh my!  A treasure!  A red bellied male!  What a find.  He was loving the dark sunflower seeds.  Eat, my feathered friend.  Eat and Enjoy!