Backyard Birds

Design - "Backyard Birds"

Designer- La-D-Da

Fabric - 32 count R & R LA-D-Da Brown linen

Fibers - ???

Started - 1 September 2009

Completed -16 September 2009

So here's a flashback - I can't believe that I completed a large sampler in just a couple of weeks - wow! 

Who is in my backyard this week?

I'm glad you asked!

I have a female Hairy Woodpecker coming by.

Good to have you back again girl.

And the male Hairy Woodpecker comes by too.

He is often one of the last birds in the evening and he gets mad at me if I've already picked up the suet feeders for the day.

Sorry dude, I can't always wait for you!

My woodpecker surprise though, was to have a Red-breasted Sapsucker come to a suet feeder.

That's never happened before.

I see and hear the Sapsuckers on trees drilling their wells, but do not recall them coming to my feeders before.

This is probably a one-off experience.

You can come back, you know.

The Acorn Woodpeckers are peanut gluttons right now. 

Here's Junior...

and here's is Papa. I've had all three birds at the feeders at the same time, but no photos to document.

Lots of Flicker action this time of year.

The guys are posing and posturing as part of their courting. 

See how handsome I am? 

I don't think that she looks very impressed.

The males are also very talkative, "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" 

And again!

Here's a size comparison with an Evening Grosbeak.

I had a Pileated Woodpecker fly though the backyard - that was awesome!