I have been in charge of trying to manage my daughter's pool before she moves here and I sit on her deck with my camera in hand. She has a pond edging her property and their are woods on the other two sides. She doesn't have feeders up yet but I have managed to see two new (to me) birds this week This is a Great Crested Flycatcher who sings quite loudly and quite a bit!! Here he is mid-song!
He turned to watch me and gave me a glimpse of his yellow belly and the little bit of red on his sides.
You can see his "great" crest here. That was how I knew he was a flycatcher.
I took this the next day and the picture isn't too good as he was bac klit but you can definitely see his yellow belly and reddish tail here. I haven't seen him the last few days.
The second new visitor was a Brown Thrasher which is a fairly good sized bird. He was very good about posing in several different positions so I could correctly identify him!
You can see his wing marks here and his long legs and tail.
He was stunning against the Carolina blue sky.
A Tufted Titmouse stopped long enough so I could finally get his picture.
A couple of Carolina Wrens stopped for a visit one day. I thought they were going to set up housekeeping in the balcony but looks like they thought better after seeing me.
A male Cardinal stopped one day to get his picture taken.
There have been frequent visits from a male and female Bluebird. Here is the more colorful male.
Here is the female who is not quite as colorful. I think they are nesting somewhere nearby.
I will miss seeing all the colorful birds at my daughter's house.
Well, finally have cleaned up the area, gotten rid of the remnants of size and retrieved all my efforts.
I have forgotten how difficult it is to get what you want. The high humidity when I was doing these didn't help as it was difficult to accurately dip the quarter yard pieces -- a problem I haven't had before. This was was pretty good.
I kind of liked this one also.
I can retrieve fairly large areas of this one and I liked the colors.
The purple looked faded but if cut up, I am sure this will be okay.
I liked several of the second pulls I did. I define this term as laying a second piece of fabric down after you have just marbled one piece. You don't add any more paint, just take what is leftover. I did this one on an already dyed piece of fabric.
I am leaving my paints and supplies here as this is something I can do easily at the beach. Maybe next year I will have better luck!
