It's the first day of Spring and the feeders are loaded with birds this year. PopPop put a suet feeder outside my window in the redbud tree and the little birds pick away at it during the day. Occasionally the starlings will come and take over, but they don't stay long. Sophia, Ebony and Chubba are loving it, they sit and watch the birds by the hour.
Queenee is having a grand time in Las Vegas. She went to the Hoover Dam yesterday (and I convinced her to pick up a cheapo camera, so she took photos) and is wandering through the Luxor today. She'll be home Friday morning.
And I know someone will want to know, so let me say that I didn't bother trying to balance an egg last night.
I understand that especially old eggs, say two to three weeks, where the yolk sac loses its firmness, can be shaken vigorously, breaking the weakened yolk membrane and allowing the yolk to settle to the bottom. It's easier then to stand the egg on end.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can do it any day of the year.
ReplyDeleteAre these bird photos your? shot from out the kitchen window? They're beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThat website I linked to dispels any notion of being able to balance an egg only during the equinox.
ReplyDeleteYes, all the bird photos in this group are mine. The lighting isn't great, and shooting through glass doesn't help, but the birds are all identifiable, so I can't complain too much. The suet feeder photos are shot out the window in the little room at the back of the house, which is where I sit at the computer. The light here is very bright backlighting in the early morning, and in dark shade the rest of the time. I may get better photos once there is no reflective snow on the ground.
The red-bellied woodpecker is on another suet feeder that hangs from the grapevines over the driveway. That photo and the female cardinal *were* shot from the kitchen window.
ReplyDelete"any day of the year" - a jest on the old wive's tale, not intended to advance our knowledge beyond that offered on the website. Maybe you're capable of getting crisper more colorful shots but the closeups and the postures are excellent.
ReplyDeleteI've been looking at our red-bellied woodpecker and evidently we have one of those "special" birds...the red pattern on his head is different from the typical r-b. PopPop will be so pleased.
ReplyDeleteI think you have identified the gay bird in the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBTW... Birdwatchers from everywhere in the country came down to see the Loggerhead Kingbirds that made a rare appearance this month. They don't migrate and we assume these came up from Cuba. Having doors open everyday, I hear and look for unusual birds and haven't spotted one here on Cudjoe. We do have a pair of White Crowned Pigeons nesting in the low cabbage palms across the street. When they and the white winged and ground doves are all here on the porch eating the cats nibbles, there is a constant coooing words (coo-fill coo-up coo-the coo-bowl coo-again).... at times makes us coo coooooooky ! (At times?) This is a good time of year to spot flying visitors from the south.