Sunday's Hummers

While the Merlin app every once in a while says it hears a Rufous, I've not seen any for at least two weeks. 

Female Anna's

Love the iridescence on the throat.

Happy Sunday!

Saturday's Critters

A trifecta of critters.

A baby skunk

Look at those fangs!

I mean look at them!

The twins

One has a wound on its face

A squirrel

This one is still nursing

A Couple of Woodpeckers

Design - "August" (Flip It)

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 32 count Country French Cafe Mocha linen

Fibers - GAST - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 28 August 2016

Completed - 29 August 2016

Had a couple of Hairy Woodpeckers fly in.

Can you see both of them?

This is the juvenile.

Looks like a kid - very unfinished.

Bits of red atop its head - a clue. 

Here's the adult - far more polished looking.

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