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Garden Grumbles and Cross Stitch Fumbles August 2016 Blog Header

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Row #1: Alma Lynne Designs, "Noah and Company" - "Done by Me" ; Curtis Boehringer, "Forty Days and Forty Nights".

Row #2: Praying Hands, "40 Days and 40 Nights".

Row #3: Homespun Elegance, "Noah's Ark Band Sampler" -
Noah's Ark Square"; Alma Lynne, "Noah and Company" - "On Seas of Blue".

I'm not sure what my August stitching theme is going to be this year.  It may be a Catch Up month.

A recent morning began with a flyover - a Great Blue Heron.

The group of Purple Martins continues to hang out.

The adult male is very handsome and glossy.

See?!

I was pleased to finally get a couple of good photos.

And here's a group photo.  The Martins are much larger than my Violet-green Swallows.

In the absence of the Acorn Woodpeckers, the Steller's Jays are hogging the peanut feeders.

Blue on blue.

The American Goldfinches have paired up.

H.re's the baby Brown-headed Cowbird and its White-crowned Sparrow parent.

A couple of young Scrub Jays.

A Turkey Vulture waiting for the sun to rise.

After a couple of weeks with no Flycatchers, I had a couple come by.

Heres' one.

And here's another.

Because they perched on distant trees and did not speak, I cannot ID them.

 

The final two broods of Violet-green Swallows are still in their houses.  I expect them to fledge any day.