Our Morning temps have been dipping into the 40’s all month. The poor little humming birds are puffed up trying to stay warm and staying close to the feeders. This little girl stayed at the feeder all morning.
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| I have an itch… |
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| waiting for a turn at the feeder |
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| still waiting… |
Because they forgot the words!
(Ha! Ha! Get it? Yeah, yeah, I know! Corny Joke… I got a million of ’em!)
Humming Bird Spinner
Humming Bird’s favorite flowers in hanging baskets on the deck
ivy Geranium
Double Calibrachoa and a few others…
and feeders in every corner of the yard, filled with homemade sugar water…
Sugar water recipe ~ 1 cup sugar dissolved into 4 cups boiling water… cool to room temperature then fill clean feeders. Fills 4~ 8oz. feeders.
I’ve been trying for years to get a decent picture of a Chickadee. I finally got one to pause long enough to get a couple of shots…..
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| He’s cracking open sunflowers seeds |
Turkey Buzzards waiting for the cars to pass so they could sample the squirrel pancake….
The Cherries are getting ready to pick…
…and so are the Robins!
Hope they leave some for my Cherry Jam!
(BO-KEH): refers to the quality of the blurring of the out-of-focus portion of an image,
With a reflex (= mirror) lenses, it’s a doughnut bokeh: The blurring consists of “donuts,” round, circular patterns that ad an interesting twist to the overall image.
See that little brown bird with a white head? It’s in the exact center of the photo! Look close!
That’s a Bald Eagle!
I swear someday I’ll get a telephoto lens for my camera! Then you’ll be able to see that eagle!
There is a river between me and the eagle and this is as close I could get.
Another photographer came up beside me, “Did you get a good shot?”~ he was holding his DSL with it’s big ole long lens…Yeah Right!
I had to crop this one just so you could make out that there was an eagle in the picture!
Anyway, the Eagles are back at Starved Rock State Park.
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| Thank goodness Buttons has a lot of avian friends to look out for him…. |
Lil's Garden Tour 