Musical Food Goodies?
Originally uploaded by larrapin67.
Meanwhile, who knew Orioles would eat homemade suet cakes? We put oranges out for this beauty, but the squirrels ate them -- yes,oranges. Who knew squirrels would eat oranges?
26 May 2007
More lovely wings...
More lovely wings...
Originally uploaded by larrapin67.
This hummingbird was drying out on a pine twig outside the kitchen window after a rainstorm cleared. Larrapin Garden is swarming with hummingbirds this year since Mendy's maintaining about five feeders all around the house. This is the only way to keep the territorial little cusses from "claiming" a feeder and not letting any other hummers feed. Some of the little males still try to protect all the feeders! But the number allow other hummers to sneak in for a drink.
To the Wrens: I was wrong!
To the Wrens: I was wrong!
Originally uploaded by larrapin67.
This is the story of a near tragedy. This nest was inside a fold up camping chair on the covered porch. After the big freeze at Easter,the parents (Wrens) seemed to abandon the nest. I watched and watched for days and days -- nothing, they never visited that I saw, whereas I'd seen the Mom on the nest nearly all the time pre-freeze.
So after many days of watching, I took the nest out to the wooods(to leave it there and reclaim the lawn chair) but photographed it first by placing it in a pretty evergreen. I had no more than walked back to the house when THERE were the parents -- very upset! I ran back out to the woods, retrieved the nest and replaced it in the chair. The parents started minding it again, hatched out three babies and raised them up successfully. Close call and taught me my lesson -- don't mettle!