August photo a day challenge: Goldfinches written by citysonnet It was a bright and sunny day and the Goldfinches were out enjoying the black oil sunflower seeds. It was so sunny that many of the pictures burned the goldfinches making their… Read More ›
We had a storm today, the remnants of Isiais. As a hurricane, did some serious damage from North Carolina though Connecticut. By the time it showed up in Massachusetts, it was no longer a hurricane. It was barely a tropical… Read More ›
Yesterday, while I was feeling especially poorly, I got up early to get something to drink. I looked out the dining room doors and there, on a feeder, was a bright red Cardinal and a brilliantly yellow Goldfinch. Even feeling… Read More ›
Racket had gotten out of his cage. Nothing unusual about that, except that usually when I let him loose, I’d make sure to put away anything I cared about to avoid having Racket destroy it. It was futile but I… Read More ›
MOSTLY HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE If nothing else, this pause in space and time has given me good reasons to go back through my downloads. I have an awful lot of downloads that are just sitting on… Read More ›
Garden Birds Squared Today is the day I find all of my square birds that I’ve been saving since we got feeders! It has been so hot that the birds have not been coming out for seeds until the sun… Read More ›
A Bird’s Eye View While I was shooting a least chipmunk, I was also squaring up some birds. Because the birds aren’t afraid of this tiny furry critter. They will share a feeder with her, but not with a squirrel. I… Read More ›
A Square Perspective – BeckyB, 22 July 2020 My View from a Quarantined World I feel like life has become an endless game of hide n’ seek. We are perpetually in hiding and that which is hunting us is… Read More ›
A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes and Threes Three is a good number. It’s considered one of the lucky numbers (the other is 7) and somehow, things look very good in sets of three.
The one bird we are never short of around here are woodpeckers. We have at least five kinds. Only three of them come to the feeders: the little Downy Woodpecker, his big brother, the Hairy Woodpecker, and the Red-Bellied Woodpecker…. Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS – JUNE 2020 – AND SO MUCH MORE … What a strange and haunted year we have had. We are living in a world we never imagined except perhaps as a science fiction novel of the dystopian… Read More ›
When Owen came upstairs this morning, he looked out the window and realized the birdfeeder was missing. It’s a very big feeder and (used to) hold almost 20 pounds of seeds. We had the feeders down for a few weeks… Read More ›
RDP Sunday–RIPPLES “With nary a ripple” signals ultimate peace. No waves, no white water. Just the smooth glassiness of water and it’s reflection of sky, clouds, and the trees along the bank. And maybe the reflection of the geese or… Read More ›
BIRD WEEKLY – PHOTO CHALLENGE – BIRDS WITH YELLOW FEATHERS Many of our birds show up in twos and threes, but only the Goldfinches show up in flocks. They may be small, but when they show up, they take over the… Read More ›
The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) recently confirmed that there are now more than 70 active Bald Eagle nests in the Bay State, including the first nesting effort on Cape Cod since 1905. This nest, located in a… Read More ›
FOTD – June 16 The Wild Garden of Worcester When you totally neglect a garden — even if you have a very good reason, like, for example you are trying to not die — eventually it goes completely out of… Read More ›
