Fledglings

Design - "Sweet Violets"

Designer - Cedar Hill

Fabric - 28 count R & R Irish Cream linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 20 April 2008

Completed - 31 May 2008 

A blue, blue sky.

A lovely song.

A wonderfully bright bird.

Such a joy to have Black-headed Grosbeaks in the spring / summer.

And oh, look!  The raucous, demanding baby Starlings have fledged!

The Crows

Design - "May Blooms"

Designer - Bent Creek

Fabric - 32 count French Country Cafe Mocha

Fibers - GAST - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - May 2015

Completed - May 2015

Had a couple of crows on Sunday.

Looking

Eating

Ajax was on my lap watching, but she's decided the crows are too aggressive to take on.

Weekly Rap Up

Design - Sadie Stuart "Summer Bee Sampler"

Designer - Sam Sarah Design Studio

Fabric - 28 count WDW Blue Jeans Gingham

Fibers - GAST Simply Shaker Colors - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 15 June 2012

Completed - 27 June 2012

The flowers were a bit of a challenge, but in looking at this stitch, I am still very pleased with it.

The Violet-green Swallows continue to show interest in a couple of the nesting boxes.

This is the female

Steller's Jay strutting its stuff

Male House Finch strutting its stuff

Male Black-headed Grosbeak also struttting

Everyone is strutting! 

Tuesday's Birds

Design - "White Candlemas" Snowdrop

Designer - The Little Stitcher

Fabric - 28 count Natural linen

Fibers - DMC & Crescent Color - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 8 February 2012

Completed - 8 February 2012

The chart is a freebie and you can find it here.

I had help cleaning out the nesting boxes Friday evening, and by Saturday afternoon, not only were the swallows perching, they were inside the boxes investigating!

Flying High

A Red-Shouldered Hawk

Junco

Steller's Jay 

Male Lesser Goldfinch

Another one

Golden-crowned Sparrow

A gloriously colored male Purple Finch

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Pretty darned cute

Trio of Crows

American Robin

Male House Finch

Love is in the Air

Design - "February's Violet"

Chart - "Love is in the Air"

Designer - Blackbird Designs

Fabric - 28 count Amber linen

Fibers - GAST & Crescent Colours - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 18 March 2014

Completed - 27 March 2014 

Love is in the Air!

I had a pair of Flickers courting.

Lots of head-bobbing

And lots of talking

Here's a female

 

And here's a male

Back

Front

And sideways!

Also had a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers

Male

And Female

And I got to see an Acorn Woodpecker 

A female

Now I need Sapsucker and a Pileated Woodpecker.

Four Crows

Design - "March's Daffodil"

Designer - Cottage Garden Samplings

Fabric - 32 count French Lace linen 

Fibers - DMC, GAST, & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 26 March 2013

Completed 15 April 2013  

So on sunny days Ajax loves to stretch out on the patio as the concrete retains heat.

Folks the Crow Family seems to have four members. 

Truly that's four more crows than I want.

But there you go.

I will be watching to see if the swallows will nest with the crows around.