Chickadees

Design - "Banded Bee Skep"

Designer - Arachne's Silken Web

Fabric - 32 count Vintage Nutmeg Lakeside linen

Fibers - DMC, Pearsell's Silks, and Gloriana Silks - 1 thread over 2 strands 

Started - 1 August 2012

Completed - 9 August 2012

This piece probably makes it into my Favorite Top 10 list of everything I've ever stitched.  I love the variegated silks and the color of the linen.  This was a challenge to stitch, using 8 or more different stitches for the different rows of the bee skep. It was charted so well and the instructions were so clear, that I had no trouble learning each of the new stitches.  

I think the Chickadee nesting box is empty and the babies fledged on Sunday.  

Still there's lots of -Chickadee activity.

I put this out for the Acorn Woodpeckers, but hey, everyone is welcome.

And some Chestnut-backed Chickadees hanging around too.

Wednesday's Walk

Too hot to go far today.

Douglas fir - new green cones

Hawthorne

Hazel - see the nuts?

Young Douglas fir and a blue sky.

Douglas fir leader - new growth

Red Elderberry

The Black-headed Grosbeaks eat the berries while they are still green.

Bigger Birds

Design - "Square Dance - September"

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count Vintage Country Mocha

Fibers - WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 7 September 2020

Completed - 15 September 2020

Bigger Birds

Nice to see a Flicker at the feeder.

This is a female.

I love the bright orange tail feathers.

A ubiquitous Steller's Jay.

And a crow.

It seems there's always a crow.

Still Very Busy

Design - "Bee Skep"

Chart - "Budding Littles"

Designer - Hollis Designs

Fabric - 32 count Sandstone linen

Fibers - WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 10 June 2012

Completed - 10 June 2012

The Chickadee nesting box is still active.

I got a couple of good photos showing the adults...

...bring food back. 

They wait in the Eldberberry...

...before they make the short flight to the nesting box.

The box then erupts with high pitched chirping. 

And off the adult goes to grab another morsel.

Sunday's Hummers

The female Anna's are back.

And the male Anna's is showing off! 

I don't think that she much cares!

Saturday's Critters

We have a baby!

A doe with a single fawn.

Young enough that it is still nursing.