Bossed Around By Birds

It's happening again. The bossy Robins are back. Chortling at me in the morning, staring in the evening. Where are the meal worms? Where are the cranberries? Why do we have to wait?

So I put out the food for them, until they ask again.

We Have A Winner! Monthly Book Giveaway

Number 4 was the magic number drawn out of a hat - well actually out of a stainless steel clean dog bowl.

Our March winner is Dave Cameron! He wins this lovely book Bird Feathers.

Congratulations Dave!

Deb and I were birding Pueblo res SP a year or two ago, and found the two just-fledged Great Horned Owlets that someone had told us about. We put a scope on them, and even got some decent digiscoped pics. A mother and two girls (maybe 7 or 8 years old) happened by, and wanted to know what we were looking at, and tried to spot them with plastic drug-store kids' binoculars. Obviously they couldn't pick them out. So we dropped the legs on our tripod to get the scope down to small-child's height, and put the baby owls into the scope again. What looks on those kids faces when they got a look! They were gushing about getting bird guides, telling everyone at school, etc. Nice to inspire kids to want to become interested in birds.

Dave Cameron

Monthly Bird Book Giveaway - March!

Check this book out! I am excited to offer Bird Feathers as my monthly bird book giveaway.

So you wanna win this book? Leave a comment here on my blog in answer to this question:

What was your most memorable experience in sharing birding with others?

Comments MUST be posted by Sunday, March 20, at 6:00 PM Mountain time. If you must sign in as anonymous - I MUST have your name or a way to contact you.
If you are having difficulty in leaving a comment.. please email me zblueheron AT Gmail DOT Com. I will add you to the mix.

Winner will be randomly chosen.. the numbers in the hat thing, OK?

I Know, Not A Wild Bird....

Our flock of parakeets, especially the babies, are bringing us a lot of joy.

Here is my dad, Larry, enjoying the babies feasting on millet spray on his hand. They all flew on to him from around the room. You can see the big smile it brought.

We give our birds daily flight time out of the cage. They have fun, learn the boundaries of windows and we have fun watching them.

The babies flock to people.
And they do still like to hide in my hair. Guess that's the advantage of having birds nest-like hair.

It sure has made winter go by quicker.

Late Winter In The Garden

Spring is not far off. I can hardly wait. But winter has been enjoyable in it's own way.The yard is brown but not too dry thanks to late winter snows.
I'm in the process of cutting back last summers growth.
But I haven't started yet in these photos.
My winter gardening experiment has been highly successful and very encouraging. The bed below is dormant garlic.
A few lettuce plants survived the deep freezes we had, the ones that didn't needed more clearance between the ground cover and plant.


The spinach looks wonderful and has started growing again.
I'll have to make sure I have the inner row cover stretched tighter.
Over wintered scallions.
Baby lettuce plant growing.
Spinach planted in DECEMBER, growing.
Our lovely Plains Cottonwood tree, Simon.
Waiting for spring..
My front perennial garden, before being trimmed down neatly.
I have flats of tomatoes, peppers, flowers and prairie grasses started in the basement.
Spring is coming!