March 27 through April 2, 2011 — 54 pictures in 54 seconds, with the Wildview camera pointed at the bluebird box. Although I saw a chickadee exit the box last weekend, I definitely saw a bluebird peering into the box yesterday, with a partner on a twig nearby. So why didn’t the camera see them?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TntOoHk8Qys
| Evidently the camera needs to be on a pole almost adjacent to the nesting box. A 150% enlargement from one of the chickadee shots: |  |
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PPA, you ask, personally? A particularly phine pale ale, provided me by Erin on a recent visit here from Philadelphia. Phortunately, it came in a package with 23 others. Thanks, Erin! (Yes, I am home alone, partaking straight from the bottle, minding the puppy, while S is away in Pennsylvania for a few days. Phew!) |
Our new invisible puppy on the last day of winter — before growing from 17 to 32 pounds in four weeks.
After four inches of rain in as many days, today we see our first daffodil blooms — tiny daffodils of the kind the cancer society used to sell us each spring. Only about 3″ tall — compare to the size of the acorn nearby.
Our heather, in bloom for about a week now — under an oak canopy as specified by Wikipedia.
Gareth in recent performance by Dead Ahead at Wilbert’s in Cleveland, Ohio
(with guest Tom “TC” Constanten):
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwxjyLSTBf4
Still no luck with the owl box, nor with the Wildview camera, really. I removed the second squirrel nest and installed fresh bedding of a few wood chips, leaves, etc. And since the camera had this time failed to get a single shot of the squirrel coming and going, I moved it to a tree five feet closer, even though it’s now going to be pointing close to the setting sun.
Here’s the Wildview camera:
A Baptism Hymn, Nicholas White, OUP, 2005.
Marked SATB, but we did it unison except where the sopranos have a descant.
Seemed to go quite well.
Too windy to put up the ladder today, but maybe tomorrow I’ll again evict the squirrels who have been filling Sandy’s owl box with twigs. (Photographed on maximum zoom with the Kodak Z740, from the front porch, about 200′ from the nesting box.)
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (French, 1643-1704, baroque):
Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, arr Dale Grotenhuis.
We enjoyed practicing and singing this piece.
This publisher’s link contains an audio file:
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Hallelujah-Praise-the-Lord-Charpentier/17322480 (You’ll have to click Listen, then scroll down then click the play button where it says sample audio.)