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[Bird mama]

Good Morning Birding Friends - the bird of the day is the European Shag. Since I got my hair cut a week ago, sometimes I wake up looking like this lol.

[Bird mama]

Playing with a stick

[possummink]

Yellow footed green pigeon~~~~

Birdmama, Thought Grayson might like to see some of his relatives. They are really different.

[Bird mama]

Beautiful pigeons. One of the things that I like about pigeons is the way they drink water. They go for it like a dog would, just put that beak into the water and really drink it.

[Bird mama]

Hello Birding Friends - Since I bought this house and moved in, I've been working my way through the trees in my yard from a maintenance perspective. I've had a silver maple removed because the original owner planted it along the fence and it was buckling my neighbor's driveway (roots). I lost a crab apple and sugar maple to illness and the rest have been professionally groomed by an arborist. I finally got to the tree in the back of the yard. This tree has had me stumped for years because I didn't know what it was.

The arborist came out yesterday to provide an estimate (tucked into my storm door -lol) and the mystery has been solved. It's a mulberry tree. I also learned the pine nearest my house that will be groomed to get rid of some dead branches is a spruce.

It's sort of embarassing that I can only identify maples and elms but what are you going to do? Those are the most common trees I saw growing up.

I made the appointment for the work to be done on April 6th, since I have that day off of work. When Mike gets here, I will have a pen and paper and point at every shrub on my property to ask him - what is that?

I call them all evergreens or pines and I am sure there is more to that

I still keep in touch with the lady who was the sole owner of the house. I wish should would not have planted many of the trees so closely to the fence. That mulberry is distorting my chain link fence a bit. One thing's for sure - as long as that tree is healthy, I will have the fence redone before I take that tree down.

[Bird mama]

Now that I've been posted a bird of the day for 18 months, I still marvel at all of the varieties of birds out there. I also wonder who gets to name these different species and variations on the species. Wouldn't it be cool to name a bird? I wonder what the person was thinking when he or she named this one.

The bird of the day is the Smew

Mama and junior Smews

[mousiegirl]

On 3/24/2015 Bird mama said:

Now that I've been posted a bird of the day for 18 months, I still marvel at all of the varieties of birds out there. I also wonder who gets to name these different species and variations on the species. Wouldn't it be cool to name a bird? I wonder what the person was thinking when he or she named this one.

The bird of the day is the Smew

Mama and junior Smews

A sophisticated looking bird.

[mousiegirl]

I just saw a black squirrel on my front deck eating a rose from the fifteen foot plus climbing old English rose. I never knew that squirrels ate rose petals. He looks adorable sitting, moving the flower around it his paws munching away.

[Winifred]

I did FILL ALL the feeders, washer and dryer were attended to - a good cleaning and replacing a couple minor things on the dryer buy good ole Sears, got Davey to the dentist and he has griped ALL day long - Geesh - and have a good dinner cooking. Got it from the What's cooking in March thread in the Food section. Soushi posts some great recipes and she posted one earlier today she had done before AND I had cooked it before. Absolutely delicious - chicken!!!! Soooooo yummy.

By Friday we will be up to 95 - all are welcome to come on out. Even that is a bit warm this time for us - even out here in Sou Cal.

Hope all had a great day!!

[Puddles]

On 3/23/2015 Bird mama said:

Good Morning Birding Friends - the bird of the day is the European Shag. Since I got my hair cut a week ago, sometimes I wake up looking like this lol.

Well, I happen to think this is an adorable hairdo!