It's a Boy!

Design - "Bee Mine"

Chart - "The Bee Book"

Designer - Stitches From the Heartland

Fabric - 32 count natural linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 12 June 2014

Completed - 14 June 2014 

This is from an older chart I pulled out of my stash.  I like the colors used, and I added the four bee buttons at the corners.

Last week I looked out the front window and this is what I saw...

Three Acorn Woodpeckers!

My first thought was two babies on the left and a parent higher on the right.

But it was hard to tell, and maybe there was yet another Acorn hiding at the back of the tree that I could not see.

In this photo I thought a there was a parent bird - the father, and a baby bird.

Later last week I saw two Acorns on the gravel driveway.

Again a fledged baby and a parent.

This time it's pretty clear the baby is a boy and the parent is the father. 

The top of head is a large red patch followed by white closer the beak - that's a male.  The females have red, then some black, and then white.  So the patch of red atop the head is smaller on the females.   

Dad picked up some gravel bits...

...and gave them to his fluffy son.

"Thanks Dad!"

Below is my clearest set of father/son photos.

Dad on the left, boy on the right.

Just looking around...

Dad goes, "Ah-ha!"

"A bug!  I have a tasty bug!"

"Are you hungry?"

"I thought you might be!"

I am so chuffed that my Acorn colony has grown by at least one more bird!  Honestly, I'd been hoping for a girl to help out with egg production next year.  But hey, I'll take a boy, and I'll continue to watch...maybe there were two babies on the side of the tree.  Stay tuned!  

One year ago today Mom and I took in the Marylebone Fayre.