Other Great Autumn Birds

Design - "Halloween Pin Garden" (kit)

Designer - Raise the Roof

Fabric - 32 count Summer Khaki Lugana

Fibers - Au Ver a Soie

Started - 22 October 2010

Completed - 24 October 2010

 Some of autumn's rewards:

I'm seeing and hearing Ruby-crowned Kinglets regularly.

They are difficult to photograph as they flit around and are rarely stationary.

The Bewick's Wren likes suet and is easier to photograph. 

Love, love, love the striped tail feathers.

Profile

Suet consumption!

It's Crazy

 Design - "Three Great White Pumpkin" (kit)

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count Tumbleweed linen

Floss - GAST - 2 threads over 2 strands 

Started - 11 October 1999

Completed - 22 October 1999  

It's crazy!

I'm still seeing one or two Varied Thrush in the backyard most days.

I can't get enough of these beautiful birds!

This is a wonderful autumn gift.

Watching

Here's a Blast from My Stitching Past!

It is even stitching using DMC Flower Thread!  Can you even buy that anymore?

Design - Jack-O-Lantern Sampler

Designer - Curtis Boehringer

Fabric - 32 count raw Belfast linen

Fibers - DMC Flower Threads

Started - 19 August 1997

Completed - 1 September 1997

 

We are watching

Towhee

Steller's Jay

Golden-crowned Sparrow

Song Sparrow

A Bewick's Wren

And a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.

A good group of birds.

Nuthatches

 

Design - "Happy Halloween"

Designer - Bent Creek

Fabric - Aida

Fibers - WDW & DMC

Started - ?????

Completed - August 2014

This is another of my Mom's stitches.  She had it 98.6% completed.  I added some French knot eyes and long stitch nose and whiskers.  And ta-da!  It's done! 

I had a couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches arrive at the same time.

Here is #1

And here is #2

Fun to watch their upside down antics.

Varied Thrush Continue to Delight

  

Chart - "Alphabet Owls"

Designer - JBW Designs

Fabric - 32 count cream linen

Fibers - GAST, WDW, & Crescent Colors - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 26 October 2016

Completed - 29 October 2016

Lots of Varied Thrush in the backyard.

They continue to delight.

Two of them!

Again two birds!

Bears

Design - "Hiss"

Chart - "Eek Boo Hiss"

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 30 count Chestnut linen

Fibers - GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 28 October 2011 

Completed - 31 October 2011

Earlier this month a bear tore through our deer fence (front yard). The bear pulled over my basic set up and all the feeders on it. Then climbed on the front porch and took down all the feeders hanging there. I am fortunate that only a couple of feeders were damaged. My Dad discovered that the electric fence component had shorted out making it easier / safer for the ear's incursion.

I had stopped feeding in the backyard, and as soon as I restarted, this happened.

He took down a couple of feeders and feasted.

I've waited over a week and have now restarted in a small way in the back. 

My Dad re[aired all the torn wires on the deer fence and it is electrified once again.

I still have more work to do before the front feeders are operational again.

Back Again

Chart - "Night Watch"

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count Dirty Belfast linen

Fibers - GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 6 October 2014

Completed - 7 October 2014

Back again and worth showing off more photos!

A Varied Thrush

A more quietly colored female

Working the backyard looking for bugs and insects

This time just one bird.

But that's enough to celebrate.