Feathers and Fuzz

one woman's cure for the empty-nester blues

Carolina Wren

Feathers And Fuzz: Year One Review

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Feathers and Fuzz First Anniversary

To mark Feathers and Fuzz First Anniversary, I’ve put together a slide show highlighting many of the year’s stories.  For those of you who have been following this blog from its beginning, I hope you will enjoy the stroll down memory lane.  More importantly, I hope you will will find joy in those memories!  For those of you who are newer to the blog, the Home page (www.featherandfuzz.com) has a “Search” box on the left sidebar.  Just enter a word or two … and any/all posts matching those words will appear.  Clicking the title of any post will bring it to full screen.

Happy strolling!!

 

Birdbath Classes: Wren Performs Massage Bath

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Continuing with the Birdbath Classes theme, the Carolina Wren demonstrates the Massage Bath technique.  I'm guessing s/he was feeling dusty and decided a real scrub was in order.

Meanwhile ...

Much to my surprise, 3 of the 4 "Garden Bluebird" eggs did hatch on July 7-8.  That's 16+ days after the 3rd egg was laid -- well-past the normal 14 days.  Still weird.  As you can see in the photo -- we have color.  I have now decided I prefer watching  tiny, hot nestlings in black and white.  (The nestling on the left only looks dead -- I assure you it is not!)

To continue the weird theme, the rural bluebirds built their third nest and a first egg was produced on July 9.  No second egg  on July 10 (and no sign of a Cowbird!).  If this nesting continues, and the egg/s hatch, those nestlings are going to be warm!!

Garden Bluebirds - 3 Days - Color

Garden Bluebird Nestlings: Day 3

East Bluebird - First Egg - July 9

First Bluebird Egg: East House (July 9)