Saturday, June 17, 2006Babies! I showed Mrs. Stellar Jay sitting on the nest some time ago but this afternoon when i went up to the shop I saw this wide-open view of the youngsters. There's a third one there, I believe. Mom and Pop are out foraging to feed these open maws, as I have just done with two bigger ones. They got egg salad sandwiches and veggie soup instead of worms and grasshoppers but I seem to spend almost as much time feeding them!  Grampa is taking the boys to the stock car races at the Fair grounds in Redding today so Karen and I have a free evening. Too bad there's no place to go in Coffee Creek.  Well, Maybe I'll go rent a movie.posted @ 02:23 PM PST [link] Friday, June 16, 2006A summer snow storm! I wish one of the photo's I tried to take of the "snow" falling would come out. It's been at it for sometime now but today it has been really thick! As most of you probably know, it's cottonwood fuzz. They bloom every year and if each of these seeds got lucky the planet would be taken over in a season!  But the kids love it and they don't seem to cause anyone allergic reactions like the pine pollen, anyway. It also means-- finally!-- a nice hot summer day! It's 80 degrees as I post. So nice after all the dreariness and rain.Hope you are all enjoying a lovely day as well!  posted @ 05:10 PM PST [link] Wednesday, June 14, 2006A faulty "rescue" Some friends came in with this little guy that they'd rescued off a back road. Just in case, I called the local rescue gal and she advised putting it back as I was pretty sure she would, so that's what we did. It seemed very happy to be back and trotted off and hid under a bushy maple sapling. We'll go back up before dark just to be sure it's momma did come back for it. I know it's hard to resist an "orphan", but please try to. Most of the time you'd be making an orphan rather than saving one.  PS: We went back up just before Dark and there was a group of adults in the meadow and no sign of the fawn so I'm sure it is happily reunited with it's mother. posted @ 05:32 PM PST [link] |
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