Birdy Day with a Milestone!

Bird activity is high this morning, cloudy skies and in the low 20s out there. I worked at two jobs this week, one I saw a Brown Creeper out the window. The other job has a feeder right outside where I'm working, it had 2 Pine Siskins and a Brown Nuthatch on it.  Not sure if we have ever had a Brown Nuthatch here before, they like lots of Lobolly Pines. I can see 4 Lobollys out the window here in the neighbors forest, a few years ago the huge property behind them had most of the Lobollys timbered.

The Pine Warbler has been to the suet three times already this morning! I heard it calling a few minutes ago when I was outside, the call can be heard here. In 12 years of living here I have never seen more than one Pine Warbler at the feeders. BTW their favorite habitat is Lobolly Pines.

This is the Brown Creeper photo I took on Thursday. It jumped because of the flash. See the long toe nails? Pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing Janet's photo of the Brown Creeper. These guys are hyper active and never sit still. I did see one this morning near the suet feeders, then it as always climbed up the tree.

Female Cardinal perched on a persimmon branch.

 This morning I did manage to stick my camera out the door and get this photo of a Downy Woodpecker. I wanted the Carolina Wren, but it vacated as soon as I stepped outside.

Yesterday I took 1.25 tons of debris from a 3 x 6 tiled shower I'm re doing to the landfill. I could not believe this shower had so much weight to it. Anyway while I had the trailer at the landfill I bought a scoop of mulch made at the landfill for $21. The mulch was piled 3 foot higher than the scoop and dumped into my trailer. I had a knock away about 2 wheelbarrow loads after he loaded it too full. Pretty good deal don't you think? The compost is $28 I think, that is my next mission while at the landfill. Guess what I have on my agenda today? Making those garden paths so we don't get mud on our feet.

My blog got a fair number of hits this week linked from a tattoo design site. I went to check it out and found you had to pay to subscribe to enter the site. I wrote them and hope they will take down the link to my site. I have a lot of butterfly and dragonfly photos here, I don't mind if someone writes me asking permission to use my images for a tattoo. Charging them to see my images/pages it not at all agreeable to me.

Oh one last thing, this blog will be soon hitting a new milestone, 3000 comments. never could have imagined we'd ever get this many comments. Yours might be the 3000th comment! In 3 weeks our 2nd blog anniversary. A very warm thanks to all of you that have left comments!