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You just never know what birds you will run into down at Ft. Fisher. This morning a couple of weeks ago, there were all sorts of shorebirds intermingling Above you can see a Tri-color Heron (the dark one), a Snowy Egret and four immature Ibis who are still a bit tan in color but who will be snowy white soon!
The Marbled Godwits were there also and I never tire of seeing them!
A couple of brightly colored Oystercatchers were also there.
Even a Great Blue Heron was standing on the wooden wall.
The Tri-color has his catch.
I wondered by the Recreation Area and saw 17 deer!! They were only a little timid.
Here is a close-up of one of the fellows. The horns had fallen off of most of their heads which I now understand is what happens in the spring. You could see a little remnant on one of the deer.
I had guests all of last week so I wanted to finish off this house quilt top before they arrived. I also had to get my quilts ready for the quilt show we had last weekend. It has been a VERY busy couple of weeks!! I will have a blog showing some of the quilts from the show as I am the official photographer! You can see that I am using the scrap strips from the houses to put on a border.
It's finished!! I am not totally crazy about the border without some plain strip separating it from the top but it would have meant even more calculating and finagling to get the border to fit!
I was hoping against hope that I would finish quilting this wholecloth quilt before the GVQC show but it will have to be the next one as there is not a prayer!! Most of the middle is done though but since it is queen sized, there is a lot of edge! This is the back of the quilt so you don't see the blue lines!
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There is a flock of Ibis that regularly hang out around the neighborhood digging in the dirt for food. There were 8 across the street in the empty lot yesterday and they were all adults although you could see just a teense of tan on one of them (they are brown as juveniles). I get a kick out of seeing them from my porch! Note the curved pink beak and legs.
The weather has finally become a little sunny so I managed to get out for a short walk yesterday. Haven't seen much yet except for my regularly visiting shorebirds.
A preening Great Egret down at Ft. Fisher. He has a bright yellow beak and dark legs and is pretty tall.
A Snowy Egret who is perpetually hanging out in this one spot. I don't see as many of the Snowy Egrets as I do the Greats. The Snowies are about the same size as the Ibis and have a dark beak with just a little yellow. Their legs are also dark with a yellow stripe. They are smaller than the Great Egrets.
There were a couple of juvenile Royal Terns hanging out by the boat ramp yesterday as well. I don't see them as often as the Forster's Terns.
Driving through Carolina Beach State Park, I spotted this Osprey (again, I think a juvenile) off in the distance. Another osprey was flying around.
This is my winter project for this year. I like to have something to do by hand at night when in front of the boob tube. Two years ago I hand quilted the Baltimore Album quilt so this year I thought I would try this queen sized wholecloth quilt. Not sure it will get finished this winter but I will try!! I find hand quilting very soothing. I use a pair of pliers to pull the needles through. It is a purchased printed pattern and hopefully the blue will wash out!!
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