The heated water bowl is popular with the squirrels, birds and later on, opossums. It needs refilling from evaporation daily.
My husband saw 14 cardinals earlier but he’s not a picture taker.
It’s 10F -12C and lightly snowing. We have accumulated
only a small amount of snow.
Hopefully, you all can enjoy a warm and cozy Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Be safe. 🤗
This pelican is about to land in the Calcasieu Ship Channel, Cameron Parish Louisiana. Where are large group of white pelicans were gathered.
"American White Pelicans cooperate when feeding. Sometimes, large groups gather in wetlands. They coordinate their swimming to drive schooling fish toward the shallows. The pelicans can then easily scoop up these corralled fish from the water." - allaboutbirds.org
Hmmm ... what will I ramble on about this morning? How about car seats? Do you remember vinal car seats? They were the thing for years. I wonder if they still make vinal car seats. A fashionable car seat back in the day, was black tuck and roll vinal car seats in a souped-up car. I suppose vinal was popular because it looked like leather. I only dreamed of getting something like that done to my old cars, but they had vinal seats ... cracked vinal, but they were vinal :). That was the problem with vinal, after a while, it cracked revealing the foam stuffing. I don't want to forget the torn cloth ceiling liners in the old cars.
“No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.” - Jeremy Clarkson
Well, I'm a Dodgers fan, but I know there are lots of blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) fans out there. The only baseball teams I can think of named after birds are the Blue Jays and the Orioles ... oh there are the Cardinals. I'll post a cardinal tomorrow.
"The Blue Jay frequently mimics the calls of hawks, especially the Red-shouldered Hawk. These calls may provide information to other jays that a hawk is around or may be used to deceive other species into believing a hawk is present." - allaboutbirds.org
I took this photo early this morning with my phone using only the light of the tree. Maybe turning the room lights on would have been a good idea. This Christmas is the first Christmas in a long time that we've had a child in the house, our great-grandchild. Hence the new tree, last year I took a ceramic tree, set it on the table, and said ... done. As you might imagine, most of the gifts under the tree are for him. Hmmm ... it feels strange being a great-grandfather. That's the way the world turns.
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
The shy dunnock can be seen hopping about under hedges as its other name, 'hedge sparrow', suggests. It inhabits gardens, woodlands, hedgerows and parks.
We spotted a bird yesterday, but not able to identify it with 100% confidence. Is this an osprey? We've never seen an osprey on our #Minnesota lake before. Photographed from a distance unfortunately.
Evening all, hope all is well. It's been weeks of dull grey clouds and it's real frustrating. Finding it a little hard to motivate myself to take the camera out with me at present. Hopefully that'll change soon.
Here's a back-lit male Stonechat, during a period where the sun existed 😂
Like a pork rind cowboy ... da da dum 🎶 ... riding out on a bus with a box full of Orieos 🎵
I'll let you guess what tune goes with the preceding jingle.
I can remember my mother working as an usher in a movie theater. I suppose that would have been in the late 50s ... Okland, California, I think. In those days ushers wore uniforms and carried flashlights. She took us with her to work a couple times, at least long enough to watch a movie. I don't recall what movie, but I do remember the Three Stooges. I'm not sure if that was the main feature or one of the shorts they showed before the main feature.
"I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. - Bob Balaban