Sunday Selections # 608
Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.
A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.
Nothing rude or vulgar though.
And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us.
The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one. Messymimi is another. Drop in to them and have a look.
Just a short selection this week, I haven't been out with the camera, I don't want to get it wet in all the rain we've been having.
Beginning with the birds:
notice the browning on that one in the middle? He still has his crest
but also has the browning above his beak
and on his tail. I know that sharing the food is probably helping to spread the disease, and I am feeding less until I run out of seeds and stop, but I am not the only one here feeding these birds. I discovered just a few days ago another tenant has also been feeding them.
in the right hand corner under the window ledge can you see a small shadow? I noticed something moving, so bent down for a closer look,
It's a paper wasp building a nest! I watched for several days and when the wasp was away, I destroyed the nest. It was right beside my door and I didn't want wasps getting into my home. The nest is a clever bit of engineering though, all those tiny hexagons suspended from a single stalk.
here are the redheads, and Cousin Hugo, listening to tales from Cookie and Paddington about their travels and how they came to be here.
Static electricity! (me in the bathroom mirror) This must be why housewives in the last century tied scarves around their hair before doing the vacuuming! Notice the droopy overgrown skin hanging over my left eyelid? That will be removed when I have the cataract removed. The right eye has the same but less droopy, you can't see my eyelids at all. I remember my mum had the same.
Here is Anastasia with her big happy grin,
and Genevieve with hers. If you enlarge these two, you'll see they both have lovely long eyelashes.
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My eyes are doing the same thing but there was no offer to correct it, Scandinavian eyes. Your hair is quite enthusiastic!
ReplyDeleteLinda Sue; my hair is a pain in the you-know-what. I thought after several years of no haircuts the fringe would grow long enough to hold in the ponytail elastic. But there it is, flying free. I may have to trim it and keep a fringe for the rest of my life.
DeleteI didn't know the skin could be removed, the girl who first mentioned the cataracts told me it could be done and since it is impacting my vision, making the procedure necessary, medicare should cover the cost or part of it.
Sad with the poor bird.
ReplyDeleteThe architecture the wasp did... wow, but I agree... get rid of that!!
Fun get-together with all the gang :-)
Your hair is hilarious! As mine, too fine, we go kaboom!
Good luck with surgery (and no I didn´t see it).
Sweet babies.
Still laughing over Linda Sue's description of your hair. Enthusiastic is perfect. Hope you didn't touch any metal while you were full of electricity:)
DeleteIris Flavia; it is sad about the birds, there are three or four now in the group that are affected, but nothing can be done about it.
DeleteThe wasp nest is gone and the wasp will find another place, they don't return to a place where a nest was destroyed.
The surgery is a long way off, the cataracts aren't ready to be removed yet, I'm still able to see well enough to read and watch TV, colours and contrasts are all still good.
I love "my" babies.
Arkansas Patti: I've never thought of my hair as enthusiastic. It does look like it is trying to fly away. I am often full of electricity, and get tiny jolts from anything metal. Most often when there is an electrical storm brewing, but also on very hot days.
DeleteThe other morning my left (good) ear went a bit "deaf", I tried not to panic. All good again, but with my eyes it´s not getting better, either.
DeleteI hope we keep both, hearing and sight till the end!
Sad the birds are not aware of the desease, but then, humans can be as "unaware"...
Wasps, like spiders, are incredible architects. Love your fly away hair. And the babes. It has been v wet here too - and next week will be more of the same.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; remember the days when we would pray for rain? Perhaps we shouldn't have. I've seen the forecast on TV and it doesn't look good. I am pleased the River Murray is getting plenty of water at last, but feeling so sorry for all the flooded areas.
DeleteWasps and spiders could probably teach us humans a thing or two about building.
Don't forget about the paper bag trick to scare off wasps.
ReplyDeletehttps://mikenet707.blogspot.com/2022/04/5493-decoy-nest.html
It worked for me. I also found fake hornet nests on line. Search "fake hornet nest for wasps" on google.
Mike; I thought about a paper bag, but it's been so wet here lately any paper bag would be mush in no time. I do know that our paper wasps won't build again where a nest has been destroyed. They have a painful sting, but aren't poisonous unless the person stung is allergic to such things.
DeleteThe nest is an amazing construction and built by instinct and labour with nothing else. Lovely twinnie photos too.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; the nests are amazing aren't they? I once destroyed one almost as big as my hand when I pulled down a jasmine vine in a previous home. The wasps there weren't at all happy about it and I got stung on my upper lip. The pain lasted several hours.
DeleteThe twins are growing so fast now.
Wasp stings are no fun. I hate the nasty little beggars!
ReplyDeleteThe girls are so beautiful....such lovely bubs they are!
Have a good week ahead, River...take care. Cuddles to the lovely Lady Lola. :)
Lee; I don't hate them, but I don't like their sting. I've been stung once and am now forever careful. The girls are beautiful aren't they? And happy natured too, that's no surprise, it runs in the family.
DeleteThat nest could grow big enough to be visible, but then it would be more difficult to deal with. Well spotted.
ReplyDeleteJoanne; still easy enough to deal with, just make sure there are no wasps in it at the time.
DeleteI didn't notice your eyelids, but I'm glad there's a fix in your future. With winter coming on here, the dry air gives my lovely lady-mullet static electricity. I wish my hair would stick out, rather than paste itself to my neck. Sweet happy babies! They don't have the hair yet for that static electricity problem!
ReplyDeleteVal; I'm hoping the twins have their daddy's curls. Can you try a different hair conditioner to see if that helps the static electricity? Perhaps one of the "leave-in" products.
DeleteGod luck with your surgery when it happens. The parrots, oh dear not much you can do about other people feeding them as you say you will until your seed runs out.
ReplyDeleteThe twins are looking wonderful.
Margaret D; thank you, it's a long way off yet, next year sometime. I feed the cockies because they are ill, at first I thought the one that can't fly was just old, that's when I began feeding, but soon enough more turned up, some young and healthy, some not.
DeleteThank you re the twins.
"Enthusiastic," i like that description for hair.
ReplyDeleteThe poor birds, i wonder if even everyone stopping feeding them would help at this point.
We get wasp nests under the eaves at times, and you have to get rid of it right away. They are very diligent and do great work, but not attached to my house, thanks!
Love the photo of story time.
Those babies make everything feel better for the moment, don't they?
messymimi; I don't think not feeding would help since even flocks in the wild have the same problem, but not feeding might slow down the spread a bit. I haven't seen a wasp nest in years, this is the first since I moved here, in my previous home I found a mud nest under a brick windowsill and my daughter gets those too. We just wait until the wasps go out to feed then smash them with a broom. Once a nest is destroyed the wasp won't come back to that spot.
DeleteI always feel better when I see the babies.