Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Saturday, August 07, 2010

The Writer and The Bird

I've written before about the visitors to my garden outside my office window. Since the cone flowers are producing such lovely seeds this year, the birds are visiting more frequently. One little chicadee kept flitting past my window and finally decided to light and take a closer peek at me. Isn't he cute?


A little later I noticed a yellow and black finch enjoying a little snack. It was a little harder to snap his picture, but I finally managed. I think these are absolutely gorgeous birds.





Funny, how these distractions don't upset me nearly as much as human ones!

Friday, July 16, 2010

Company, Cats, Birds, and Books

This week we had family visiting from Michigan. Hubby's sister and brother-in-law are such great people. Every time we are together we all say how much we wished we lived closer together. Hubby wants to visit Michigan again, so I'm going to see what we can do about getting portable oxygen concentrator and nebulizer so that he can have his wish.

One of our feral cats just walked by my office window and looked in at me. I think she is telling me they want breakfast. I'm still enjoying my view from this lower floor office. The flowers are in full bloom and each day brings new visitors in the form of bees and butterflies of multiple varieties. Most fun is to watch one of the feral cats try to catch a butterfly. Luckily they are too quick for her.

We put a new bird feeder in the back yard. It has two sides to hold two different kinds of seed. One side is for finches and the other for the birds with larger beaks. It's been too wet and rainy to know if the seed will draw them back or not. We used to enjoy sitting on the deck and watching all the different kinds of birds visiting our yard. Of course the cats became a deterrent, but with this feeder the cats can't get to the birds. Plus, we feed the ferals so well they don't seem to bother the birds at all...speaking of which, I better close off this post and feed the cats.

Have a great weekend, and thank you for stopping by to visit!

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