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hummy…

18 Monday Sep 2023

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I’ve spotted the hummingbird a number of times in the garden over the last few weeks… I have basically given up trying to get a photo, lol…

last Sunday I was in the living room on the phone with my daughter and looked out the window to see the hummy shoot by…

that made me go out to the garage to find the hummingbird feeder, bring it into the house, make syrup and fill the feeder… took it out and hung it in the garden near the purple flowers it seemed to like…

I sat out for awhile to watch for it, but nothing…

the next day, my buddies were here and when one tasted her coffee she spit it out… apparently I had put salt in the sugar bowl… which had also been what I used to make the syrup for the feeder… no wonder nobody showed up to drink from it…

brought the feeder back in, made real syrup, and put it outside…

maybe the hummingbird will come back, but it looks like it may have headed south;-(…

nectar…

02 Saturday Sep 2023

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had a wonderful day Monday…

it was overcast but I put out all the cushions and set up the chairs for the afternoon gathering with my buddies…

then I sat quietly in the garden as a sweet little hummingbird flew around gathering nectar from a few flowers… it particularly liked one of the hanging baskets that has deep purple flowers… it came and went a number of times before heading off to its next destination…

of course I didn’t have the camera out so the photos I got with my phone were pretty bad, lol…

after lunch my friends arrived and we had a great visit together… these days I make suntea and we always have pistachios as a snack, maybe with some chocolate;-)…

once everyone left, I followed the shade around the garden, enjoyed my book and the visit from one of my bunny friends…

I am certainly savouring these beautiful days in the garden…

birdhouse…

28 Friday Jul 2023

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quite a while ago my neighbour brought me a birdhouse that he had made from leftover fence bits…

it was very cute but I left it on the deck and it fell over and the perch broke off… a friend was here and took it home so that her partner could repair it…

recently got it back and found a spot to hang it up…

looks nice… now to see if someone moves in;-)…

chattering…

07 Friday Jul 2023

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this afternoon, as I was sitting in the garden trying to read my book, dozens of house sparrows took over the space…

some were searching for sunflower seeds, some were getting drinks from the pond, while others were having dust baths…


and they were all chattering…

kept having to stop reading and watch to see what they were up to, lol…

pelicans…

30 Friday Jun 2023

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during our last day at the cottage, we spent time on the cliff deck watching the waves and the pelicans…

we have enjoyed the pelicans since we arrived and early on we would get very excited every time we spotted one flying over the cottage, in the water close to the beach, taking off and landing in the water, and all the times they spent with the fisher…

over the last day or so, while we were there, it seemed a bit ho hum, lol…

what we never managed to see was them catching fish… it was clear that they got something from the fisher after they brought up the final piece of the net…

we did discover that a group of them could be called a number of things, but we liked pod and squadron best;-)…

such fun to watch them over the week…

abundance…

27 Tuesday Jun 2023

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there were so many birds at the cottage we stayed at…

after hearing them on the Merlin sound app, I decided not to worry about getting photos of them… my goal was to spot as many as I could while we were there…

I think I saw most of them, except the black and white warbler…

we also saw many pelicans, gulls, eagles, hummingbirds, and at least one heron;-)…

what a wonderful abundance of feathered friends…

white-throated…

12 Friday May 2023

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sitting on the deck I listened to a couple of the white-throated sparrows calling to one another from here and the neighbours’ trees… that was after Merlin confirmed which birds they were, lol…

a lovely treat…

and I got a few photos…

the last one was having a bath;-)…

woodpecker…

21 Friday Apr 2023

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had fun watching this downy woodpecker at the feeder this afternoon;-)…

first one I’ve seen this year…

and just yesterday I caught this blue jay at the suet feeder too…

checking…

18 Wednesday Jan 2023

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I’ve had fun checking out the birds on my Audubon calendar each day…

it has been interesting to see birds I don’t know and I also enjoy thinking about when I’ve seen those I already know…

hand…

15 Sunday Jan 2023

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the Audubon calendar for Friday and Saturday was a chickadee…

and yesterday a memory came up on Facebook of me feeding a chickadee in Mer Bleu three years ago while I was visiting…

I had hoped to train my chickadees to eat from my hand, but so far, no luck…

I did catch this little one dashing to and from the feeder, lol…

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