I haven’t taken any bird pictures because the feeders are down. Not sure when they’ll go back up, but I’m thinking maybe the end of August or mid-September. I have a lot of seed and I have the feeders. I’m really waiting for the giant troupe of squirrels to learn to love the woods and acorns and not be wholly dependent on my seed. I’m also hoping that the number of flying squirrels stop emptying the feeders every night.
I went to take pictures of the garden — or whatever you want to call it — and there was a big gray bird. I’ve seen a lot of catbirds, but this one was bigger than usual. And fat. I guess the birds aren’t starving because I took down the feeders.
Capped Gray Catbird
Capped Gray Catbird
Capped Gray Catbird
Capped Gray Catbird
Capped Gray Catbird
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beautiful, great snaps.
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That bird looks pretty healthy to me….
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And he seems to have gotten that way without our assisted feeding program. But the woods really ARE full of food!
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they should be by now…
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That is a beautiful bird
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He kept sitting there and chirping at me. Each time I turned around with the camera, I could see the bird, but his HEAD was hidden behind a leaf. I have some great pictures of headless catbirds 🙂
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It is fat alright. 😉
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It’s all the blackberries. There are a LOT of berries in our woods and a whole bunch in our front yard.
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Healthy food!
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I’d like to get some too.
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Me too. 🍇🍒🍓
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Wonderful shots of the catbird — another that we don’t see in Southern California!
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They live just along the shoreline. We’re about as far off the ocean as they live. You see a lot of them down on the Cape and the Islands.
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I always have wondered what a catbird looked like. I have four Blue Burmese cats exactly that color! That first shot is especially wonderful.
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I was surprised I got it because I didn’t remember taking it. I put the camera on multi shot and it worked. With birds, sometimes that’s the only way to go.
Burmese cats are the most gorgeous color with green eyes. Always wanted one.
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A nice little surprise for you. And us.
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Have you looked at the video of the baby yet? Be sure to turn the sound off.
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Watch it with Garry.
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When I moved into the house in Boulder Creek, I was in the house out in the middle of the redwoods for 3 months as Bob finished up the school year down south. The first week, a blue Burmese wild cat started coming around when I was down the mountain in the garden.. the only flat spot on our acres of redwoods. After a couple of weeks, she had moved in and by the time Bob moved in, she’d had three kittens. The mother cat disappeared the first year but the others were with me for their entire lives and one moved to Mexico with me.
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I wrote you a private note on this 🙂
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