Favorite Egret Images from Over the Years

 Some of my favorite Egret pictures for your viewing pleasure as I sort through my images. Taken over the years and most from breeding seasons.

Great

Great

Reddish

Reddish

Reddish _ White Morph

Western Cattle Egret

Western Cattle Egret

Snowy

More Dyeing

 

Dyed Cheese Cloth

Getting back into Fabric Dyeing

Two weeks ago. it was snowing at this time. Then, 4 days later later we had more snow.  What's a girl to do but pull out her dyeing supplies?  I haven't dyed for almost 2 years, when I did some while renting my friend's summer home.  We had two10" to 12" snows the January I lived there.  I've been in my new home since May 2022 but haven't gotten around to doing any dyeing.

This house doesn't have a basement, which is where I did my dyeing before I sold my house.  I have to mix the dye solution in a bathroom and then, bring the bottle of dye into the kitchen where I can use the island to work. Works well for me.  I did some snow dyeing and then, some values - light, medium & dark of new dyes I bought a year ago. I dyed 6 pairs of bamboo socks.  Next, I did a light value 12 step color wheel between the colors Firecracker, Goldfinch, & Cornflower Blue. After that, I just played with light value dyes to use them up.  

Today, my plan is to mix up either 1 or 2 bottles of each primary color.  Then, I'll do another color wheel and some playing around over the next few days.  I also need to find some time to make a birthday postcard.

Favorite Duck images

 Sorting pictures tonight. Here are some of my favorite duck images.

Green-winged Teal

Bufflehead

Black-bellied Whistling

Redhead

Wood

Ring-necked 

Hooded Merganser

Gadwall

Blue-winged Teal

Red-breasted Merganser

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Cochranville ~ Horned Larks ~ Life Bird #499

Coming home from my trip, I was 2 species short of 500 species seen for the United States.  I would have loved to seen more new species while on my 10 week trip but it wasn't to be.  So when I heard there were Horned Larks in Chester County, I knew that with the snowfalls we'd had this past week, they would be more visible in the farmer's fields. So off I went yesterday to look for them.  I found a flock about 50 about 4 miles from my home.  I was able to get some pictures but the quality wasn't the best.  I went back today and found them again though not in the same fields as yesterday. It was also a smaller flock.  Pictures in the cold are more difficult and again the images aren't as crisp as I 'd like but you will see the "horns" on the birds.

 

Cochranville ~ Another Snowstorm with Brutal Cold Weather

 It's been brutally cold this week all accross the country.  It started snowing during the night and has snowed all day. In my area, it's been between 14 and 18 F for the lows, and might get to the mid 20's for a high temperature.  Here's some birds coming into the feeders to get some food.  I kept the feeders full as there were 22 - 24 species of birds coming in to feed all day long.  There were birds that never come to the feeders, use them, and an Eastern Towhee came up on the porch looking for some seed I'd scattered which they never do.

Northern Cardinal & Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Towhee

Carolina Chickadee

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker with White-throated Sparrow in the background

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Eastern Bluebird

Northern Cardinal

Song Sparrow