Jayne & Dolly. (Those names weren’t our idea. They had firm feelings on what they’d answer to.) Jayne (in the back) is eight years old, and Doll is thirteen years old.
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Jayne & Dolly. (Those names weren’t our idea. They had firm feelings on what they’d answer to.) Jayne (in the back) is eight years old, and Doll is thirteen years old.
Some of Gracie’s crew.
I am not, however, in the kindest of moods towards them, Gracie in particular:
Because I don’t feel like working today. Screwing about with this photo.
The Grackles are back. I look forward to this every year, I’m very fond of grackles. They are astonishingly beautiful birds, with a metallic rainbow hidden in that black. They can look wonderfully fierce and raptorish, but they are endearingly clumsy, and there’s that fabulous puff ‘n’ whistle business. Grackles are always shy at first, as they tend to be high on the enemy list here in farm country. The last couple of years, there’s been an increase in leucism in grackles. There’s one leucistic grackle in particular, I call Pye, and I hope he is back again this year. (The last shot is Pye, from last year). Click for full size.
A Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber), from Abear. Thanks!
File this one under: FFS. My apologies to PZ, for pestering him unnecessarily. I’ve had to change things in my studio lately, to accommodate all the ratlets, and didn’t realize the rats could get up on the computer station. Even more stupidly, I left an admin page open, and left my keyboard on. In their usual mysterious way, they hit a perfect storm of keys, and borked everything here. It’s all fixed up now, so all you wonderful people who commented today, you’ll have to do it again, I can’t figure out how to move comments (if it’s even possible – the rats could probably do it.) For your trouble, here’s Ville, one of Violette’s boys, named after Ville Valo, because of the wicked cute.
Violette, with a bit of help from a henchratlet, works on stealing the chocolate bunny.
