29 January 2024 (a mouthful)

a mouthful

of fresh snow

the owl’s nest hole

7 June 2023 (bygone)

bygone smokestack . . .

an osprey’s keening

above its nest

30 May 2022 (robin)

feels like summer . . .

a robin flies from her nest

with a fecal sac

2 June 2021 (nest)

warm spell

another finch egg

in the back porch nest

17 February 2020 (nest)

the osprey nest

heaped with snow

midwinter

26 November 2019 (nest)

nostalgia

birch bark filigree

in the empty nest

June 17: Nesting

nesting season

both catbirds

scolding the cat

June 11: Nesting

catbirds nest-making

in the sunny old garden

everything’s ok

July 8: Making hay

Freshly mown hayfield--

I can't help but think

of the nesting Bobolinks.

Posted with Blogsy

November 29: Selling Christmas trees

• Christmas trees' past lives--

• sometimes we find a bird's nest

• or a vine garland.

 

Posted with Blogsy

July 2: Blue Jay crisis

Blue Jays built a nest on our front porch and hatched out one nestling, now half-grown. Unfortunately today it prematurely bailed out of the nest, and then did it again and again each time Paul replaced it. We can't tell if it hurt itself in the fall or is just weak because its parents are too busy dive-bombing everything in the yard to look after it. But after consulting Avian Haven, the bird rehabilitation place in Freedom, Paul put it in a basket with some soft rags and hung it up by the nest in hopes that the parents will resume tending to it. We have been trying not to care too much, because you just can't get attached to a baby bird, but the vulnerable little thing did hatch on our porch...

This won't end well--
I wish the struggling jay
hadn't clung to my finger.

July 3 update: The baby jay, in rough shape but still alive this morning, was transferred to Avian Haven.