Tag: birds
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betwixt and between
Which reminds me. I need to order the cat and dog food to be delivered to the farm. Ordering feed for the Midwest farm from a town in Victoria, Australia is not as crazy as it sounds! It works. Back on the farm. (Illinois) Apparently FreeBee has been a naughty pig and escaped his winter…
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When you hit that overwhelmed feeling
Identify it first. That overwhelmed feeling. Give it a word. The first word that comes to mind. The word I am giving that feeling today is: prepare. Breathing helps. A good declutter of the brain helps.(not sure how to do that yet, but like my cutlery drawer it is long overdue). We are icebergs. Or…
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Empty Nest Syndrome
Yes. The little bird has flown or rather the little birds have flown. Plural. Yesterday afternoon they were gone from their bread basket nest. I was sure that one kept flying close to my head as I worked in the evening. I fancied that it might have been Jonathan Livingston Swallow who I put back…
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Leave it up to the Cows
The flies have arrived with the heat. Though you would not know it from this idyllic image of wheat in the sunset. Flies are hell for cows so this beastie got under an old jacket I had hung in the tree. I re-purpose sacks and old hoodies, the pigs winter blankets, (pretty much anything) and…
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What bird builds a nest like this?
This birds nest is way up high in the old elm tree, can you see it? The nest seems to be almost suspended on a curving branch that looks a bit like the boot of Italy. It looks so precarious there. And that branch does not look strong. The nest is tall – probably about…
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