A Gift From Nature

Design - "Little Birds Calendar - Robin - February"

Designer - The Little Stitcher

FAbric - 32 count Vintage Country Mocha Linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 11 April 2018

Completed - 14 April 2018

This is a great little series. The designer has released the first four months' birds.  I love that the little European Robin is surrounds by snow flurries and snowdrops.

Here's a photo of a European Robin I saw in June of 2013 at Sissinghurst.

Robin were ever-present in England - this one was hanging out at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.

Birds really are a gift from nature.  And speaking of gifts, guess who came by Saturday afternoon.

A pair of Western Bluebirds that's who!

Here's the male.

He is a mature bird with all the expected coloring.

My sister was outside weeding a flowerbed and I went out to see how she was doing.  The birds were sitting on a couple of the deer fence posts watching her work.

Periodically they'd fly down to the lawn and grab something to eat. 

The female is a young bird - she probably fledged last spring as she still does not have all the coloring a mature female bird would.

They stayed close together and the male sang and talked.

And ate!  See the neon green worm / caterpillar thing he found in the grass!

A perfect illustration of why I am totally opposed to using chemicals to fill weeds and fertilize the lawn.  So many birds use the lawn to feed and as material to build their nests. 

So I'm thinking I might need to invest in a bluebird nesting box...

What do you think?