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Pattern: Nesting Dolls designed by Katie Startzman
Pattern Source: Available for purchase from Katie's Ravelry Pattern Store
Yarn: Various colors and amounts of Cascade 220 and Patons Classic Merino
Needles: US10.5 and US13 Clover Bamboo DPNs
Date Started: 1/25/2011
Date Finished: 1/30/2011
Modifications: Instead of embroidered patches, added bowties from wool felt
This pattern is really well written--and not to mention totally adorable! These guys are going to be for Serena for her first birthday next week. I think she will love how colorful they are!
It is like another world: limestone tufa towers rise like strange stalagmites out of the still, salty lake waters in California’s Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve.
The lake is a mecca for birds and bird watchers. Since the mid-1980s, osprey pairs have been nesting on tufa towers in Mono Lake. Although the raptors are fish-eaters – and therefore have to hunt for food further afield – the tufa-islands provide nesting sites that ground-based predators can’t access.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/evening-over-the-tufa...
Finally the Blue tits have found nesting material in the Alpaca fur ball hanging in the garden. Not noticed any others yet.
ODC - NEST or NESTING is the topic for Monday 16th September 2019
These nesting baskets come from Tanzania, the largest is only 2 inches high and 3 inches across, they are handmade using wire and small beads. My son-in-law was stationed there and brought back some really neat stuff.
The bluebird is my favorite song bird. They are nesting in our yard this year, which is just fantastic. They have nested in the yard in years past but not in a couple years. Hopefully it will be a successful nest. Having the 800mm with the 1.4x keeps me at a nice distance as not to overly disturb them.
*Must View large to appreciate the detail
came across this swan and it's mate close by. they were in small pond out in the country
No doubt about it, Bluebirds have stolen my heart!
I look forward to the Spring when I know we will be blessed with another nest and more adorable babies.
Feb 2021. The sounds they make at their nest sites is something else - reminds me of a dripping water. Cormorant Series #2
The vote is in - the Black-capped Chickadee is now Calgary's official bird!
"After collecting more than 36,000 votes, the City of Calgary has announced which bird will officially represent the city — the black-capped chickadee.
The small bird came in first out of five birds, capturing a healthy 44 per cent of the vote. The black-billed magpie came in second with 24 per cent of the vote, the northern flicker came in third, the blue jay in fourth and the red-breasted nuthatch in fifth." From CBC News, 15 May 2022.
Sunday, 15 May 2022: our temperature is 14°C (windchill 14°C) just before 1:00 pm. Sunrise was at 5:46 am, and sunset is at 9:19 pm. Sunny.
Yesterday, 14 May 2022, I was finally able to get out for a drive, the last one being on 29 April. It felt so good to be in the outdoors, especially after wasting the previous two days, waiting to hear from someone about delivering and installing a new kitchen sink garburator. I had been told it would be happen on Friday, but nothing. Nothing on Saturday (yesterday) either, but I did get a surprise early evening, when I opened my front door to go to a meeting and discovered a box on my doorstep! No email or phone message or ringing doorbell. No idea when it was dropped off. So now I have the new one and my old one continues to leak into the cupboard. Guess I will be wasting a third day when/if someone does eventually come and install.
There was one particular bird that I was hoping to see yesterday, but no luck. My own fault, no doubt, as I got up at the very unearthly hour (for me!) of 7:00 am but didn't leave home till a few hours later. I know I will get other chances to see one or more of these birds. No hurry.
For the third time, I called in at Ranchers Corner (down on Highway 22 just north of Millarville) for their cheese burger and fries take-out. Drove a few roads further to find a quiet country road and pulled over to enjoy my meal. Definitely worth calling in at this little bungalow turned take-out/cafe.
Feeling full, I continued my drive SW, seeing few birds other than several Mountain Bluebirds and Robins and a little Savannah Sparrow. I knew I was not out at the best time of day and ended up looking into the sun for almost every bird photo. Will I ever learn? Of course not : ) A barn or two and several brightly coloured Bluebird/Tree Swallow nesting boxes made up for the shortage of birds.
A robin nesting on an incomplete antique Regulator clock case. Taken at a clock shop that sells new and used clocks in addition to new and used parts. Photographed from a distance.
March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay.
"One of the largest Great Blue Heron colonies in Western North America, this island of forest sits between Padilla and Fidalgo Bays. Vera and Bud Kinney donated this property to Skagit Land Trust in 1994 to protect the nesting herons. With the cooperation of neighboring landowners, each year, Skagit Land Trust conducts a nest count in the heronry. 546 heron nests were counted in 2016 in this relatively small area, which provides easy access to feeding grounds for the herons. Unfortunately, the Trust does not have access to all neighboring property, and therefore some heron nests are uncounted. The overall trend, however, shows increasing number of heron nests in the colony on Skagit Land Trust property and the property to which we have access -- and there are likely to be hundreds more nests on the adjacent property to which we do not have access." March Point Heronry
A quick photo of a nesting doll that I'm working on. It isn't finished, but thought I'd share anyways. I'm also organizing a nesting doll exchange. More details here.