Self Portrait of Birds and....
With a cheap, used Sony Cibershot camera, home brew, hooked up on a motion control board, all put inside a pelican case, watertight, you can let them out for day's and see what you caught....it's fun!
Male Yellow bellied Sapsucker
Female
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Cedar Waxing on the Honey berries
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Orchard pictures...
Comments (115)LOL Bruce, I guess you're right. Glenn,...you bet! Not so much out in the country here but som trees are like this, sheltered in town it's a common thing. I would think a perfect cherry for a sheltered zone 3, zone 4 should be just ideal, zone 5 and up might get a bit warm but I think you should still have cherries, not sure if loaded like this. You can also experiment with other root stock, this picture is Evans on pin cherry, nicely loaded, flowered a little later, the cherries are still on but deer have eaten most on the bottom branches, I put on a trail camera,...they might be back, if so, I'll post later. The cherries are slightly smaller but I find sweeter. Picture from July 2, Evans on pin cherry....See MoreAny self cleaning ovens safe around pet birds?
Comments (12)The short answer is no. The problem with self-cleaning ovens and birds isn't the coating; it's the fats and what-not that are being burned out of your oven during self-cleaning. Since the gunk on the sides of your oven is the same no matter the make, all self-cleaning ovens are the same in terms of the danger they present to birds. Birds are sensitive to chemical fumes of all sorts, whether those are from a self-cleaning oven, a hot Teflon-coated pan or oven cleaner. One approach would be to move the bird to a well-ventilated room elsewhere in the house or, to play it extra safe, somewhere else altogether. dodge1959, I'm dubious about your friend's birds and gas story. Sounds perhaps like a myth drawn from the old "canary-in-a-coal-mine" birds-as-poison-gas-detectors thing. Birds *are* extremely sensitive to carbon monoxide but appliance running properly don't emit enough to bother even a bird. Maybe cockatiels have a particular problem. I can say from experience that lovebirds have no problem coexisting with gas appliances and yes, sometimes small amounts of raw gas come out. There are a lot of bird owners out there with gas appliances who would be very surprised to hear there's supposed to be a problem!...See MoreI self-cleaned my new oven... (and a note about my gas rangetop)
Comments (41)Pllog makes a good point. Thank goodness for small mercies - no peeling, no flaking. Funny about that with the previous ovens. Rather surprised about that too as I hadn't heard anything about it. Must say, am a bit mystified by a convection oven whose fan cycles off. Why??? Not to save energy surely since the most energy-light part of the oven would be the fan! I downloaded the manual and saw that bit on page 17 that Rocs pointed out to you. A convection oven that may or may not convect. That's not averaging, I wouldn't say. Anyhow, Monogram has received good reviews and I will say that the forward/backward flow is a not half-bad idea to get good coverage. Not to sound totally condescending, but I just wanted to reiterate a few things that you probably already figured out cooking oh in the course of your life and re: convection anywhere (these are the things that I needed to learn): - pre-heat time. Never mind the beep; let it pre-heat 30-40 mins. - Selecting the correct racks and rack pairs when multi-rack baking. All specify to watch for this esp. with multi-rack cooking. - Air-flow: Take them at their word when they talk whatever their oven needs for clearances and to ensure laminar flow in their ovens. Yours says 1-1.5" clearances on either side from the walls, center the dishes on a rack, stagger them when one on top of the other (mine is v. tolerant about the last in convection mode but the clearances for airflow are definitely imp. I've found) - cooking to dish type: darks, vs. shiny vs. glass. Spills vapourizing to smoke is also surprising. Sounds like the bottom element was on and scorched the spill. I think using your drip try from here on out to help catch spills sounds like the best bet. I don't really know what to say though as it sounds a bit odd. Wouldn't have thought the bottom element could get that hot that it would char spilt pastry. No way that Monogram will come out to check the element to see if it is out of place somewhat? (Its a stretch but that's such an odd happenstance, I'd be dying to see what's under the panels ;-) ). Rhome, you'll figure out the ovens' idiosyncracies no doubt....See MoreHummer in the Tiger Lillies!
Comments (6)My first year plant of Lobelia tupa is getting ready to bloom! I can't wait to see how the hummers react. Right now, they are busy with the cuphea and the digiplexis. And my salvia Hot Lips is also a big draw, although almost entirely white at this time of the season. mor, let me know if you need any suggestion for winter bloomers to keep your overwintering Annas happy - I can't imagine your coastal garden is that different in climate to my Puget Sound garden :-)...See More- 15 years ago
Thank you all!
Magpies are a bit of a nuisance....just like crows, they're in the
constant watch for easy picking of fledgelings at this time of year.
Dax, no fir, I have some pine, most in the pictures are green and blue Colorado spruce, some white spruce,..yes, Tamarack and birch, I also grow little leaf Linden, mountain Ash, choke cherries, burr Oak, tons of apple trees, all from seeds, and some more.
Here is one of my pride & joy of a seedling ornamental crab apple.
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The Sapsucker got accustomed to the sweet treat now!
Hope this helps filling he's belly and be easy on making holes into my trees!
..The female here is not seen anymore, looks like she is busy
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..Male still comes every day.
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Migrating birds are back!
Yellow bellied Sapsucker,...I rather have him eat sweets then taping and killing my trees.
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Harvest is almost over, ...again this year I wanted to see what's attracted to apples.
Porcupine,... a new animal around!
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I've been missing cherries with broken branches..
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Coyote
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A young Moose!
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>>Did you catch a surprise human in the last one?No, that's me, ..it was a one's in a lifetime experience!
I was in the orchard when out of nowhere this moose was standing about 8 feet away, then we looked at each other, me then moving backward from this only tree I left unpicked for wildlife and getting my little pocket camera. This young moose stayed about 10min. munching on apples from the tree and ground.Some pictures from my side of view.
You can see the trailcamera under the neck.
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LOL BobIt has started....
Dark-eyed Junco, filling up before heading south.
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This fall allot of moose showed up getting the harvest done!
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>>Is the building in the second picture an indication of how much snow you get?Sorry, didn't know at first what you meant, Bob, ...that is a little tree house on a steel fuel stand, I use it to put hive boxes up to catch swarms,..bees like to go high when searching for a new home.
Found this one,...thought it was cute.
This Coyote from this Winter
And young Moose
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Thank you all!
It also makes me happy when you like it and also enjoy nature.I wasn't going to put a camera up this year with the orchard trees mostly resting, some had a little apples,..well then I figured it would be still nice to see what's going through this year.
One moose was there for about a week, one only whitetail deer mom with two offspring are pretty much there every night,..that's fine with me because last year there was way too many and lots of branches got ripped down, ..eventually they recover.This is a first for me,..nursing mom.
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Yes, winter I also love, especially here in Alberta where lots of sunshine is not lacking.I live in town on a hill but have about 6 acres hobby farm 12 min. drive, this would be around 45min. from Edmonton, my workplace.
To give you a prospective, the other day picking some pears up on the ladder.
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Lorna..think this is all I can handle.
Yes...thread is getting too long, most I have put in what I wanted and don't want to start a new one because it would be mostly repeats...will only add one here and there.
Tigerlillies just starting to open here.
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