A Nice Bird or Two

Design - "Monthly Animal Series" - "August Bee"

Designer - Nikyscreations

Fabric - Espresso 30 count R & R linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 5 August 2016

Completed - 7 August 2016

Framed - September 2018

The frame picks up on the rosy-pink flowers.  I have quite a collection of framed beehives / bee skeps and am most pleased to now be able to display this design. 

 Most of the male Black-headed Grosbeaks are gone - already migrating back south.

What's left a females and juveniles - very hard to tell them apart.

I did have a special bird swing by.

Very poor lighting for the most part.

But here you can see it calling which was what alerted me.

It was a bright yellow female Western Tanager!

Wednesday's Walk

A walk around the house

Hawthorne

Close up

Lesser Goldfinches enjoying chicory seeds

Fuchsia

I can't remember what this is called, but it is a hummingbird magnet

See?

Rudbeckia

Another rudbeckia

Osier dogwood

Clematis

Hosta

Fuchsia

Ninebark

Fuchsia

Poppy

Blue Elderberry

Woodpecker Activity

Design - "A Bit of August" (Flip It)

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 32 count Light Mocha Cashel

Fibers - GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 23 August 2016

Completed - 25 August 2016

Woodpeckers

Female Flicker

Female Acorn Woodpecker

Male Acorn

Male and female Acorns

Beauties

Design - "A Year in Chalk - August"

Designer - Hands on Design

Fabric - 30 count WDW Gunmetal linen

Fiber - GAST - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 30 August 2016

Completed - 1 September 2016

Here's a couple of real beauties!

Okay, maybe they aren't beautiful.

They are very useful and are graceful fliers.

Sunday's Hummers

All about Anna's

 

Saturday's Critters

I've had a couple of bear incursions, but all my photos are of deer.