Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Happy Halloween!

Design - "Hoot"
Chart - "Autumn Smalls"
Designer - Lizzie Kate
Fabric - 32 count Natural Light linen
Fibers - WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 24 October 2017
Completed - 26 October 2017

I've one last finish to share with you at month's end! Hoot!

Here are a couple of Halloween Birds.

We hear a juvenile Great Horned Owl several evenings each week, certainly he fits the bill as a Halloween Bird. While we generally do not see the bird, we do see other raptors like this this Cooper's Hawk.

The California Scrub Jays qualify as Halloween Birds given their wide array of squawks and noisy chatter.

Here's a small Masked Bandit!

In his Halloween costume - it's a Red-breasted Nuthatch.

Winter plumage can be a disguise - hard to recognize a female American Goldfinch. 

Here's a female and male.  I only have 3 or 4 birds - most have moved on.

Thank goodness the Pine Siskins have come to replace the Goldfinches.

Happy Halloween everyone!

8 comments:

  1. Happy Halloween 🎃Stitch is spectacular, I have many Nuthatches both white & red fun birds watching a pair of Pileated woodpeckers now and against the fresh snow they look even more beautiful 😘

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  2. Happy Halloween!! The stitch is a hoot! Love your Coopers Hawk photo, I can't say I've ever seen one.

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  3. Hoot is a sweet finish. What a regal looking bird, the Cooper's Hawk.

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  4. Hoot stitch is cute!! (ha---rhymes!)
    How clever of you to present your feathered friends as Halloween birds!!! So fun!!!

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  5. Beautiful stitching and beautiful birds!
    Happy Halloween!

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  6. Happy Halloween Beth. Love your little stitch. I love owls. I often hear them but rarely(once) see them.

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  7. Beth that stitch is adorable. The buttons really make it for his eyes. The real owl is gorgeous as are all of your other photos. RJ@stitchingfriendsforever

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  8. Great pictures, as always! Instead of Goldfinches you have Pine Siskins. Here I think ours would be Yellow-rumped Warblers! They dominate every place I have been to lately! I have YET to see a Red-breasted Nuthatch...maybe there is still a chance this year... You got 'Hoot' in just before the month's end! Yay!

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