Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds. Show all posts

Friday, July 01, 2011

June 30, 2011

 Finally Some June Weather!


Usually it's fairly cool - for Florida - and rainy during June, but this year has been so strange! Temperatures way up in the 90s, hot and dry, dry, dry!  Then for quite a few days we had smoke from the fires up in the Okefenokee Swamp north of us, and from fires in Volusia County, south of us.  Some days we could hardly see for the thick smoke, and other days even if it wasn't so thick it still made everyone cough when they went outside.  We could even smell it inside the house! We worried about fires here since it was so hot and dry.

Well, finally just a few days ago we got our "June weather" - cooler temps (80s, not 90s) and some rain.  Mostly it rains in the late afternoon, which is nice for all the day camps going on! 


The bird, probably a female cardinal, is the same color as the birdbath.

It's so nice to have everything green again after a few rains!

Friday, June 24, 2011

June 2011 Sun Flowers


Birdseed Sun Flowers





Several sun flowers sprouted from birdseed pushed off by the birds. 
A few of the sun flowers grew large enough to bloom! So pretty! 
Some had to be staked because they were so top-heavy.  
The brownish pole is the support for a platform bird feeder - squirrel proof! 
You can see where the paint's been scratched off by squirrels and raccoons trying to climb up.

Thursday, January 06, 2011

January 5, 2011

Piliated Woodpecker pecking away on this tall pine tree

Live Oak tree in wintertime

Tropical Storm Fay (2008) damage