3 bluebird juveniles are interested in the nesting box where they fledged...I don't know what is drawing them, but they look like a crowd wanting to jam into a too small doorway! Making me laugh.
3 bluebird juveniles are interested in the nesting box where they fledged...I don't know what is drawing them, but they look like a crowd wanting to jam into a too small doorway! Making me laugh.
How cool! I've only seen one bluebird in my life, as a child in NC.Originally Posted by nswef
On my birthday this year, a bluebird flashed me. A flash of blue! It was spectacular. I have seen him only 1 time since but man are they ever blue.
They may be my favorite bird, the blue, the rosy breast, the chuckling chittering. I've been lucky to be able to see them nest and fledge as I sit on my porch. The bird box is close. Two families raised little ones this year.
This is a picture from the internet of a juvenile. Those I saw must be older as their breasts were peach and less speckled. That flash of blue is always a treat. JuvenileBluebirdStack_81D5237Crop.jpg
We had a family of small hawks that stayed in our pine trees for a few weeks recently. The house next door is vacant and has a weedy backyard so we assume they were teaching junior how to hunt for mice and whatever else is back there. They were very noisy though with all their shrieking but entertaining to watch.
Cool!
I'm so glad to be home again. Three trips to St. Louis this summer - one for the consulatation in mid-June, one for the surgery at the end of July (gone from home almost two weeks) and then back again this past Wednesday through Friday for my one month follow-up. Traveling is pretty hard on the healing body; the first leg of the flight yesterday from St.Louis to Houston in United's almost last row of economy seats was the pits for a tall person - 3/4 of the way through the flight I could hardly stand it anymore, being cramped up like that. Painkillers are still my friends these days. Then a delay in Houston. I didn't get home until midnight (I have an hour drive home from the Albuquerque Sunport). Being crammed in a giant floating metal tube with hundreds of strangers is rapidly losing its allure for me!
At any rate, healing is going as well as can be expected and I'll be starting PT next week. I only have to go back for one more check-up at the end of October. I won't really know what sort of function I'm going to have in my left arm for quite some time yet though.
Thanks for the update, SiouzQ! Sounds like there is positive progress with the healing, even if it will be slower than desired. Take the time to rest from the travel and good luck with the PT.
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I'm glad you are making progress, SiouzQ. Living so close to Boston, I've never given much thought to what an ordeal it must be to have to do long distance travel for a major medical issue. That must be quite unpleasant when you're feeling unwell. Good thing you only have one more trip to make.
Siouz, it’s too bad you missed the cool weather that’s happening now. You’ve been here during hot spells and sure that is typical for St. Louis, but also we get cooled down periods. Today is lovely!
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