I sat on the back patio, swathed in pyjamas and two polar fleece bathrobes, fuzzy socks, and gardening clogs with my coffee, my feet heater, binoculars, my P&S Canon, and anti-starling air rifle. Saw lots of birds, scared off a flock of 35-40 starlings, and got a few photos. Only so-so because of the distance, […]

I actually made the bracket yesterday, but had to allow the JB Weld to cure, then I was lazy today and just got it put up now. I will never give up my lighted 5x makeup mirror, but neither will I give up the little vanity I’ve had for 14 years, but never could use […]

There. Bad photo, but it was dark. Anyway, this is a trash panda/warshing bear, escaping up the tree after having eaten an entire block of suet, and all he (or they) could reach from the log feeders. Now, we’ll see how the fat bastards like mama’s special recipe for bird cookies. Lots of fatty goodness […]

It was crappy and cold, raining, and windy on Saturday, so I didn’t do much except a little coding for D&T’s menu, and I made one upside down suet block feeder. That’s basically it, except for sitting outside, all bundled up with my feet heater on, watching my birds at the feeders and pond, and […]

The last two roost hoces are up! P put his woodpecker hoce up himself. I put my last one up. Much easier with ladder wrangling help! We actually saw a little Carolina Wren, checking out each of the houses on the trees. I hope he found one he liked! I opened up Wren Manor, but […]

I typed this post once, but then I hit Select All > Paste instead of Select All > copy, and wiped out the whole damned thing, so here I am at my computer where I can type a whole lot faster. Only two more roost hoces left to put up; one of mine, and P’s […]

B brought my ladder over after work, and although I didn’t get the screws all the way in because it was dark by the time I got up there, and I’m nervous on a ladder more than six feet up even in broad daylight with someone holding the bottom of the ladder, so I couldn’t […]

I got a few things done today. Still working on the laundry, but I did more important things! I didn’t take pictures of leaf blowing, or figuring out why the pond was losing water, but I did that stuff, too. Drilled a drainage hole in Wren Manor, stuffed in some crabapple shavings, and mounted it […]

Add that dude to my bird list. I hadn’t seen one in a while, but just had one at a suet feeder on a tree. Funny little things go round and round the tree trunk in a spiral.

I made the wren hoce today; I had plenty of scrap left from the vertical bird hoces. Since I decided to make the side open instead of the front, I needed to support the long perch. It took some ripping, and a few re-cuts because the angle was different,  but I finished it. I decided […]