Titmouse...

Titmice are one of my favorite birds.  However, they are so quick, that I have trouble getting photos!  In...out....in ....out.....all day long at the feeder.  I just get focused on one spot and and think I am ready for them, and they decide to go to a different feeder.  I guess it keeps the hawks guessing, too and keeps them safe.

 A few photos of the little birds on the back deck.

I think I could be very happy to just have Chickadees, Titmice, Nuthatches and woodpeckers come to my house!....and Cardinals....and finches......and......oh, well.....just all the birds!  I do like the variety :-)

Snow Geese and Quilt squares......day trip

I'm finishing up some recent stuff that I haven't posted.  We went back to Henderson to see the geese again.  It was a nice overcast day that actually makes taking the photos a little better.

 A huge mass of them were all huddled together in one field.  Extend the edges of this photo about 6 times to get the idea of the size of the flock at that spot.  The Snow Geese all sit together and the Greater White-fronted Geese were sort of around the edges.  There was one large group of the White Fronts sitting in another field....but just as far away.

 At one point a flock took to the sky from another field and headed towards this group.

I won't put dozens of photos that all look alike this time. 

 We had friends with us and were also looking for more of the Quilt barns that are in the Morganfield and Sturgis area.  We managed to find a lot of them and I also still had the photos from the first trip down there to post.  I posted the library in Morganfield already, so I won't do it again, but here are some of the others.  I really like this one on the blue barn!  My favorite!

 No square here, but I liked this silo and the little stable and the moody skies.

 Inside there were 4 really big donkeys....mules??.....they were BIG like horses.

This was a nice little barn and square.....in the middle of no-where down a long winding road.

 Lots of people in the area are putting them on houses.....harder to find and photograph.  This one is called Joseph's Coat.  They have a brochure with the names and locations.

 Maltese Cross

Rose of Sharon

 This illustrates why you don't want to sit in the back seat to take photos and be too lazy to get out :-) I really dislike whoever it was that decided that backseat windows should not roll down all the way.  sigh

Tulips

 1810 Church......the original of the Presbyterian Church that this one was on.

On a Vet's office.....Great Grandma's Quilt

 All-American

 Missed the name on this one

 Gifts

 Golden Memories....on the Senior Citizen's Home

 Harvest Star...on the Union County Extension Office where the nice people gave us the map.

 Lover's Knot.....I've seen a different pattern with this name.

 Philadelphia Pavements.....at the hospital

 Scraps of Glory

 Sunbonnet Sue

 Union County Middle School

 White Buck Winery

 Ryan's Journey

 Double Wedding Ring

 Fan

KY Chain

Believe it or not....there are more squares in the area that we couldn't find or didn't have time for!

 There was one mile of highway that we traveled repeatedly while looking for all these squares.  We counted 13 hawks either on the ground or on fence posts!  They were there each time we went by.  This must have been a mile of ground with a high population of mice or something good to eat!!  The photos are awful because I had to shoot quickly through the window.

I've never seen so many hawks hunting so close together.  Weird!  

Red-Bellied Woodpecker.....

I was watching some of the smaller birds on these wire feeders, when the Red-bellied Woodpecker female showed up.

 I'm not sure I have ever seen one with such a distinct "red belly" as this one.  It was very noticeable.

 Turned and ready to go

 Searching for just the right seed.

 Just hanging around.

 The one on the bottom must look the best

 "How can I get the peanuts out?"

 Take what you can get.

she doesn't do as well on the ball....too little support for her tail.