I mentioned the challenges in construction of the leanto had been compound by the fact a Robin decided that a bunch of the junk leaning up on the side of the barn made a nice place for her to start a family… well – things have developed over the last several days. As the pictures [...]
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A picture of a female Downy Woodpecker on the suet feeder… It’s actually one of my better bird pictures in a while – click on the image will get you a larger view of the photo.The reddish thing on the left of the feeder all wrapped up in chicken wire is a pomegranate we [...] Female Bluebird on Weather StationOriginally uploaded by fishpickdiver Darwin wrote about the concept of “Survival of the Fittest” – which is often maligned and misrepresented by people who don’t understand the definitions of the words used. In simple terms – “fitness” is the ability to produce offspring that will survive to reproduction age – thereby increasing [...] As you may have read – we had a bit of a tragedy here at Chicken Thistle Farm when we lost an entire brood of babies.We have watched a large harrier hawk patrolling the field along the nest boxes – it’s highly likely that the female was lost to predation and that’s why the nest failed. [...] |
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