The Little Things

[JJ]

In coping with my life I learned to find joy in the little things

Today as I stared out the sliding glass door in my room I noticed an Indigo Bunting flitting around my bird feeders. Determined to get it's share in spite of the big woodpecker and squirrel bullies trying to dominate the feeders.

As a child I always thought of the Indigo Buntings as the bluebird of happiness and they proved as rare and elusive too. Deep inside some part of me still sees them that way and it brought a smile to see one so determined to hang around.

Now if I could just find a positive image for those furry tailed rats called squirrels................

Johnny

[Guest]

You're a wise man Johnny.

It's the little things that mean so much.

I have not found what to do with the tree rats(squirrels) neither.

Huggs,

Joann

[mara13]

They make a nice stew, if you can get 8-10 of them. Other than that..... Not a clue.

[VickySGV]

Around here, squirrels keep the owls well fed and happy!! < ---That was up to the time the local church with the high steeple and open belfry rented the space to a wireless phone company who evicted the owl family.--- Sigh. > Up in the foothills though, its squirrel nut and seed caches that help with reforestation after our wildfires. The fire chases out or kills the squirrels but their buried food supply takes on new life.

[Guest Robin Winter]

Does it help that I love squirrels?

[mara13]

Uh OH!

Umm, Shilo, Please disregard my previous post! Even better, DON'T READ IT!

[Guest Jennifer T]

Yes. The little things!!

I was on a multiday outing a couple weeks ago. On day 4 we saw a bald eagle sitting on a branch in a sycamore tree by its nest. It was glorious. But a little while later as we watched, it took flight. The other eagle came to the nest and the first eagle got into an aerial combat with another large raptor (appeared to be an osprey). The two birds in combat on the wing were poetry in motion.

[mara13]

Speaking of little things, I saw this seasons first hummingbird here! So beautiful, all a flutter and with a gorgeous red throat. It couldn't have been bigger than my thumb.

[Carolyn Marie]

I'm still waiting for little hummingbird things to come and taste what's in my new feeder. It's been hanging outside my back door for two weeks. Well, at some point its bound to attract bees and ants, and they are little things, too.

You're a sensitive man, Johnny. Nothing wrong with that. Keep those pics coming, too.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Kaylee234]

I think squirrels are adorable!

That's all I really had to say

~ Kay

[JJ]

Oh squirrels are cute. And some part of me will always love the little stinkers - a close friend had one for around 15 years that was a rescue but they are brats at the feeders. And they get my pecan crop before I can. They do leave the bad one for me though. Sometimes.

You can tell one is a mother when she sits up and her I don't mind so much. Sometimes it's a real show when the jays run out of patience and start diving the squirrels. Sometimes they succeed but once they have settled to eat the big Redbellied Woodpeckers-we have 5 varieties here but the huge Pileated don't come to the feeders-take their turn and drive away the jays. But only temporarily. It's like watching a soap opera some days. The littler woodpeckers and Wrens and many Cardinals along with other species like the Indigo all sneak in between the visits by the bigger bullies. We are on a spot where flyways cross and migration overlaps with a mix of habitats from woods to wetlands to meadows around so we have a huge array of birds. For awhile a lone Raven had taken up residence driven out of his usual area by the weather conditions of the last couple of years. He actually tore the wire cage off the suet feeder. The crows had tried and given up but the raven is much bigger. I haven't seen him or heard his croak for awhile so I believe he has moved on.

Sometimes it's a lot like living in a zoo here. Inside and out

Johnny

Sometimes i see the hummingbirds on the wild honeysuckle but my neighbors are big on feeding them so I don't.