Becky Grambo 🍁
@rebeccagrambo.bsky.social
Lapsed Geological Engineer. Involuntary adventurer. Retired writer of natural history, history, and science books including Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon. Parent of rescue parrots and rabbit. Quilter. 🇨🇦
The trees above and around the feeders are filled with birds and the whole ground is also busy. At least 100 grackles here at one point! The Grackling™️
They are so very small. ❤️
We have Ruby-throated Hummingbirds that migrate through in the Spring and Fall. We don’t see one every year, but occasionally one or two drop in for a very short visit. This year the yard is filled with flowers and this little female has been hanging around for a few days! #Birds 🪶
It is the beginning of the Grackling ™! Probably 60+ here when I got up this morning. This is the breakfast group.
Canning pickled beets! So disastrously, wonderfully messy! 🤣
Happy Birthday dear @michaeljklein.bsky.social ❤️ May your day include ice cream, cake, and many smiles!
Happy Birthday Snoopy and Woodstock
Alt: Happy Birthday! Snoopy is wearing a yellow hat and sitting to the left of a cake. and Woodstock is wearing a blue hat and flying over the cake lighting the candles.
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Late ducklings at the marsh!
New sets of ducklings keep on appearing in this little marsh! This morning there was a female Blue-winged Teal hanging out along with about dozen ducklings! The ducklings were all dabbling among the algae mats and this little one is about to snatch an insect! #Birds 🪶
If you are growing cherry tomatoes in your garden, you must make this! I used a bunch of different cherry tomatoes cut in half and 9 oz. of feta because that was the size of the piece I had. Fresh basil and lots of pressed garlic. OMG! Definitely a 10! feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/baked...
Baked Feta Pasta
Baked feta pasta is a simple recipe made by oven roasting a block of feta cheese with cherry tomatoes to create a salty and cheesy sauce!
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We’ve had lots of Merlins, especially juveniles, coming through the yard to check out the Grackle Buffet. Love these little fighter jets!
The Merlins are active and very interested in all the grackles that are visiting our yard. This Merlin dropped in earlier today to say hi and join the party! #Birds #photography 🪶
One of my all time favourite movies!
Angela Landsbury's Eleanor Shaw Iselin is one of the greatest movie villains, bar none. Her monologue to Laurence Harvey as she gives him his final orders is mesmerizing and terrifying at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Zn...
Before and after — cherry tomatoes in the dehydrator. The 15.5” tray of tomatoes now fits in half of a sandwich bag. I keep my temperature low to preserve color. They taste wonderful and fruity! Currently have green onion tops in the dehydrator and pulled out dried sage and chives yesterday.
These birds are so beautiful and dismissed here as pests. 🤷🏻♀️ I want to tell all of you who post positive comments on this that your appreciation of nature and Glen’s photos make me know we are not alone in caring for the world around us. Thank you so much!
I think the Black-billed Magpies have gotten sick of hearing me gush over how gorgeous the Common Grackles are. This Junior Magpie flew in and posed on this branch as if to say “check this iridescence out”🤣 #Birds 🪶
Migration is definitely on! Blackburnian Warbler in the yard last night — first time for that! Hummingbird feeding on the honeysuckle this morning. Tempted to spend most of the day in the yard to see what else appears!
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Mornings are cool & Fall like right now, and it’s hard to believe that this image was taken only a month ago! Spring and early summer are frantic for parents & this female American Goldfinch was really loading up on the tiny cattail seeds. All the fluff makes a great beard though! #Birds 🪶
Sandhill Cranes flying over! On their way south from their Arctic breeding grounds. Such an iconic seasonal sound!
It’s a cool, damp morning. I’m going to head to Duck Lake, Saskatchewan to drop off two quilts for longarming. The one I just finished is fun — vintage school days. I found a batik that had all the colours in the prints and used it for the cornerstones and outer border. 😊
Every day seems to bring gifts at the moment. 🧡
Some of our evenings lately have been cool enough to produce some morning fog. Marshes are always magical places but the fog brings such a quiet beauty! As the sun came up, this female Redhead duck greeted it with an exuberant wing flap! #Birds 🪶
I wish you could all be here to see the abundance in the garden this year! It’s a cool overcast morning and the insects are just starting to get rolling. Need to work indoors today but will be back out this evening to visit with the bees.
@michaeljklein.bsky.social This made me think of Whiskers!
For #InternationalTigerDay... "Tigerlillia Terribilis" — from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-lears-nonsense-botany-1871-77 #InternationalTigerDay2022
I’ve been watching Canada’s athletes at the Commonwealth Games and I am so incredibly proud of both their performances and their personalities. All of them are a credit to this amazing country! ❤️🇨🇦
We are so lucky that our backyard is treated as a safe space by parent birds who bring their babies here. 😊
This little one first visited our yard a couple weeks ago. Dad brought Junior in and showed him various trees etc. Now this baby Hairy Woodpecker is here multiple times a day and he/she tests ALL the trees and branches! Tap, tap, tap … baby Hairy is learning the ropes!
If you listen to audiobooks, I have to highly recommend Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series and the first of what I hope is a new series We Solve Murders. The plots are twisty, the characters are wonderful, and the narrative performances are near perfect. Add your audio favourites below!
Jd Witherspoon's Joyful 'It Was So Good' Reaction
Alt: Jd Witherspoon's Joyful 'It Was So Good' Reaction
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