May Blog Header Revealed, Finally

Garden Grumbles and Cross Stitch Fumbles May 2015 Blog Header

Vertical (up and down) rows - details below. If the chart contains multiple designs, I've listed both the chart and design names.  

Row #1: Ewe and Eye and Friends, "Peacock Spot Sampler"; The Yankee Stitcher, "An Ostentation of Peacocks"; The Drawn Thread, "For the Birds";  Birds of a Feather, "Happy as a Lark".

Row #2: The Stitching Shed, "Cluck Cluck"; Easy Cross Stitch Pattern A Day Calendar 2009, Elizabeth Spurlock, "Chickadee"; Plum Street Samplers, "Free Bird"; The Prairie Schooler, "Spring and Fall" - "May".

Row #3: Barrick Samplers, "Brite Birds" freebie; Madeleine Floyd, "Blue Tit"; Praiseworthy Stitches, "Winter Bird Delight"; Just Nan, "Bluebird Sampler".  

Row #4: The Cricket Collection, "We the People" - "Uncle Sam and Friend";  The Cricket Collection, "Soft Boiled" - "Tiny Chick"; Lizzie Katie, "Six Fat Men" - "Snowy Birdhouse" border freebie; The Prairie Schooler,  "As the Crow Flies"- "Sow Four Seeds".

Row #5: The Prairie Schooler, "A Prairie Christmas" - "Partridge"; The Trilogy, "Happy Chirp Chirp Day"; Bent Creek, "Tiny Tim Turkey"; Sam Sarah Designs, "Baubles - R is for Robin"; Twisted Threads, "Easter Trio" - "Bitty Chick Sampler"; Heart in Hand, "Checkerbird".

   

Row #6: Bent Creek, "Red Winged Blackbird"; The Prairie Schooler, "October" - "October Owls", Twisted Threads, "Winter Trio" - "Cardinal Sampler"; Crazy Folk, "Fly By Night". 

Row #7: The Need'l Love Company, "Sunflower Harvest" - "Crow and Berries"; The Cricket Collection, "Eggs...etera", "Painted Egg".

Row #8: Heart in Hand, "Wee Rooster"; La-D-Da, "Tis Better to Give Than Receive".

Whew!  That took some doing!

Solomon is intent.

He's bird watching.

Apparently the upside down antics of the Band-tailed Pigeons amuse everyone.

Are you amused?

It is rare that I see a female Acorn Woodpecker these days.

I hope that means that they are busy nesting.

She's not talking.

I have two 'cage in a cage' suet feeders that I am using in attempt to deter the Starlings from scarfing down my suet.  The Flickers are able to use this feeder just fine... 

...but so can the Starlings, though it does slow them down and my suet is lasting longer. 

This is my larger 'cage in a cage' suet feeder.  It does a better job of keeping the Starlings at bay.  Smaller woodpeckers like the Downy Woodpecker can access the food easily, the Flickers and Jays have to work harder, but they are using it as there is no other easier choice available now.

The male California Quail  have become very protective.

They now stay close my their female standing guard.

The Red-breasted Nuthatch is smiling. 

I hope you have reason to smile today.