How would you like this view out your kitchen window?
Another reason to spend the winter at Quartzsite. : )
And again, the following shows how much time I have on my hands.
; )
Yesterday I was watching Katie laying on the couch. Usually when I pull out the camera she stops what she's doing, but this time she continued on with her little nap. She had done this once before, and I wanted to get the photos.
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| Sleepy Katie - ready for a short nap with her paws in the quilt. |
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| She puts her feet inside the folded quilt - nice and warm. |
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| This time she got the blanket in her mouth and opened up the fold. |
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| Aha! Now this looks cozy. |
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| ...and so she slept for a little while. zzzz zzzz |
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| Nice and rested. |
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| A pretty big stretch for a pretty short nap. :) |
This is what's been going on with my humming bird feeder:
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| First the feeder had ants - I washed it out and returned it to it's branch along with some flypaper strips. They've been working well to keep the ants from walking down the wire hanger, but I still haven't seen a hummingbird in this site. |
We had our second visit from the Gila Woodpecker. It was fun to watch it preening, pecking the Ocotillo branches and getting nectar out of the feeder.
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| Thinking about flying to the feeder. |
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| In flight, trying to land. See it's yellow underside? |
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| Finally made it. |
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| Then the Gila Woodpecker hung on the Ocotillo branch and stretched and stretched. |
That was a few days ago, and I haven't seen another woodpecker in days. I moved the feeder this morning to the other side of the Ocotillo and now we have bees. Katie and I took a long walk and when we got back, it was filled with dead bees. I had to fill the big holes - you can see the rock on the right that the bees are still trying to feed around, but at least they can't get in and get trapped. I was hoping the bees wouldn't deter the hummingbirds, I haven't seen any feed here at this site yet. So, we've had ants, bees and woodpeckers so far.
Then, out of the corner of my eye I saw movement and snapped this quick shot. He is on the other side where the feeder was, hopefully he'll come back.
From me and Katie, have a great Wednesday, everyone! :)
