Life In The Slow Lane
Today’s post is written by a guest author, Freddy.
I gotta tell you, I was living the good life there for a while. I had a roof over my head, a nice swimming pool, and plenty of peace and quiet. I had no rent and no worries.
All that came abruptly to an end today. All of [...]
That’s what the baby house wrens are saying every time I am around the nest box. Feed me mamma! Or pappa, doesn’t matter, just FEED ME!
The babies are about 12 days old now, and starting to grow feathers and look more like the birds they will soon become.
This will be the last time I open [...]
Posted in Nature on Jun 11th, 2010
They grow up so fast! The young wrens are now one week old, and starting to look like birds. I count at least 5 beaks in the nest, but there are probably one or two more. I’m keeping my visits very brief to avoid disturbing the birds any more than necessary.
These are house wrens, and [...]
I guess I liked daylilies even before I knew what they were. In the days of my youth I would admire the ‘wild” Tiger Lilies that grew along roadsides and in ditches. They appeared each summer, as if by magic. I didn’t know much about them, I just knew they were pretty and seemed to [...]
Posted in Nature, Photography on Jun 4th, 2010
I normally visit the fine feathered folks at Curbstone Valley to have a Fowl Friday, but this Friday we have one of our own to celebrate.
It seems that sometime in the last 20 hours or so the baby wrens have hatched. There were seven eggs, but I haven’t been able to do a head count [...]
I was walking barefoot across our yard the other day and when I got to a patch of clover I slowed down and started walking very carefully because I didn’t want to step on a bee. I wasn’t really concerned about getting stung, I was more concerned about hurting a bee because they are in [...]
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