Design - "Small Blue Motif 1" (freebie)
Designer - Windy Willows
Fabric - 32 count cream linen
Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 23 April 2015
Completed - 23 April 2015
While enjoying a sunny, albeit windy afternoon outside with the cats, I stitched this little rabbit. It reminds me of a small Delft tile.
This has been a busy week for woodpeckers.
The male Red-Shafted Northern Flickers are very territorial now. Lots of drumming and hammering and strutting.
Often there are two males vying for the attention of a single female.
Mostly the females would just like to be left alone...
...to eat in peace!
I do have one interesting female Flicker - see the yellow on the underside of her tail feathers?
Here's a better photo. I think she is a Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker - far more common east of the Rockies. The folks at bird store think she might be an intergrade - which is a hybrid of the two types.
This male Flicker probably is an intergrade. He has red shafts, but also has a red stripe on the nape of his neck which is a characteristic of yellow-shafted flickers.
Occasionally a Red-breasted Sapsucker flits by.
It's hard to top the brilliant red of their heads.
I was most excited though to see a female Downy Woodpecker, even though she does not sport any red feathers! I haven't had much Downy Action this winter and am hoping for more frequent sightings this spring.
I see Jays and Starlings at the peanut feeders are more frequently than the Acorn Woodpeckers.
And instead of groups of three and four, I am luck to have two birds at the same time - far more often it is a 'singleton'.
