Flicker Families

Design - "Liberty"

Designer - Lizzie Kate

FAbric - 32 count Light Mocha Belfast linen

Fibers -  GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 9 July 2015

Completed - 10 July 2015

I changed GAST "Oatmeal" to WDW "Whitewash", and also added the red and white star button.  This freebie can be found on Lizzie Kate's website.

I've had as many as four Flickers at a time.

This is a young male bird.

You can clearly see the red strip on the back of his head. 

He's watching.

The stripe somehow helps the parent birds target feed the chicks.

Here's a family of three.

The adult bottom left is feeding a young bird bottom right, while another young bird upper right watches.

Here's bird #4 watching the other three.

Back to the trio.

Mom on top. 

Two young males below.

A blue sky day.

Wednesday's Walk

It's a warm one!  Off we go!

Dried Cow's Parsnip

Oregon White Oak

Vine Maple

Blackberries

Ninebark

Blackberries

Cascara

Cascara

Wild Plum

Spider web

Stay cool!

Chickadee Tuesday

Design - "Stars and Stripes Stoop"

Chart - "Birdhouse Collection"

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - R & R 18th Century Stone linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 18 July 2017

Completed - 19 July 2017  

It's Chickadee Tuesday 

The Chestnut-backed Chickadees are back (have been AWOL while breeding).

Black-capped Chickadee

Suet!

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Both kinds are cutie-pies.

Grosbeak Monday

Design - "July"

Chart - "3 for 2 July"

Designer- Curtis Boehringer Cross Stitch

Fabric - 28 count Light Mocha Cashel

Fibers- DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 2 July 2016

Completed - 3 July 2016 

Grosbeak Monday!

Male Black-headed Grosbeak

Young Black-headed Grosbeak

And another male

The males will head off south by mid-August, so I'm enjoying them while they are still here.

Sunday's Hummers

Just one short Anna's series this week.

Enjoy.

 

Saturday's Critters

This week's critters? 

Ajax and squirrels

A drink

Look for hazelnuts.

Happy Saturday

 

Bald Eagles

Design - "America"

Designer - The Stitching Parlor

Fabric - 28 count Lambswool Jobelan

Fibers - Crescent Colors - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 19 July 2016

Completed - 25 July 2016

Here are my four eagles - they happen to be patriotic ones! This design is very different from anything else that I've stitched this July. 

 Celebrate the stitch with a few Bald Eagle photos.

A juvenile in my yard back in the day.

An adult flying overhead - again my yard.

And these are the Spencer Butte eagles from several years ago. 

They nested in the same place for over a decade.

Magnificent birds!