Showing posts with label Bluebird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bluebird. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Life :: Backyard Birds

Well. These last few weeks have been of a whirlwind sort - and I haven't even started classes yet.
Although, I'm planning to be 'ahead of the game', and am already working on terminology flashcards. I need more of a social life, and less of a 'working, I'm so freaking exhausted' life.

Sunday, I opted to take the day off and not do anything.
Thus, it included socializing, and supervising my mother while she decided to plant the plants in her garden boxes. And, if I wasn't sitting out there socializing - I would never have almost had my head taken off by a bluebird. I was so shocked to see the bluebird the first couple times it flitted about, that it took me a while to think of getting my camera...


I then proceeded to spend the rest of my afternoon, explaining to my father the plight of the Mountain Bluebird, and why we should thus have a bluebird box out back. And then why we only can have one, and not multiple. Parents.


He wasn't really that had to convice... but I got the "If you want it, you build it. You know how to" talk. *sigh*
Now... I just have to wait for my neighbour to finish his fence so I can hang a box... and find some scrap wood around...

Sunday, April 08, 2012

Life :: In Search of the Bluebird

Well. C came to town this weekend. It's always great when she comes to town - we try our best to get together, and if we're lucky, out taking photos of something... Sometimes we forget a camera... or don't charge the batteries... or hell, don't even have a memory card. But we work it all out. Haha.
This time, we ventured up to Knutsford. Being a quick drive from town, but a completely different setting is fun. In a matter of minutes, you change from urban suberbia, to farmland galore! Everything from fields of nothing but cow patties, to angry looking cows, to the odd elusive bluebird, and, even if you're really lucky, snow! Who calls for snow in April?


It was a little cold chasing after the elusive bluebirds - but we did find them.



We found nothern flickers...



Frozen lakes...



Red tailed hawks...



Meadowlarks...




Hair on a fence...



Snow...



And even a scarf on a fence...
Success I think. :)