Sharing is the BEST!

When my Best Friend went on vacation I took over the

'wren watch'. If you haven't guessed by now the other

half of the 'jane & barbie' adventures is birdgirl.

I will be keeping track of the Carolina Wren while

she is at Emerald Isle having fun :-)
Yesterday the photo op rendered this baby picture.

Still can't tell how many.

When I arrived....my instructions were: look in the garage by the ladder and camo coat, you will see a bag with a turkey decoy sticking out of it.

Sure enough, after about a 20 minute wait Mrs Wren showed up.

The pictures I use the flash made her very nervous.

So I took only a few. The rest are without flash.

When she arrived with a bug, she sat on the lower rung

of the ladder and hopped up

until she could jump over to the bag.

She was being very cautious.
It took her awhile to feed, seeing her tail flip up and down.
Are you still there?

I was sitting in the truck with the window down.

Do you have to watch me?
She looked a bit sad at this turn of events.
After about 5 minutes, she was ready to leave.
She hopped right out on that turkey and was gone.
To see the first post go to the CRAZIEST nest on

birdgirl's blog. Oh! And if you don't have a 'best friend' get

one, they sure come in handy and it's FUN!

Signs of summer ! The Fourth of July

However you choose to celebrate the 4th of July.... May it
reflect Love of God ~ Love of Family
and especially your ~ Love of Freedom.
Happy Fourth to all my fellow bloggers. May you be blessed
today and always.

Garden Flowers....

Clematis

and to think I almost ripped this out and threw it away

It took 5 years to start to bloom.. I'm glad I waited.

I have been doing some gardening in between Kestrel watches.

My Rose

I dug this plant up in Ohio where my son used to live...
It was growing wild along an old country lane.

It adds color and pretty pink to your garden

perfect pansy

And of course the daisy.. what is a garden without one.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

To god be The Glory ~ Great Things He Hath Done

I Tawt I saw a Puddy Tat!!

This is the back ally where almost all of the
Kestrel pictures were captured. The building on the extreme left is where the nest was.












The flat roof is the location where the first female and later a couple of the males landed and hopped around. Down and to the Right is another roof belonging to the Blair Cinema... long ago abandoned.








Now! I will tell you I have worked in this area for 9 years and have never seen cats. So when we discovered the babies had hopped over onto the Blair Cinema roof we weren't too concerned. We thought they would be safe there until they could learn to fly up up and away.











The next picture proves that I was WRONG about cats.. We were almost hysterical wondering where the Kestrels were, as we had seen more than one of them hop over onto this roof that evening. I know you can find the puddy tat but can you find the Kestrel?

Click and look in the B of the 'Blair Cinema' sign! We didn't know this until we came home and put the pictures on the computer. Barbie called me screaming 'it's in the B' and I'm thinking 'What?' By far an exciting evening on the Kestrel Watch.
(And no this was NOT photo-shopped)
All six babies were sighted since then so NO! none were eaten by the puddy tat.

To God be the Glory ~ Great Things He Hath Done

The Baby Album

If you don't calm down I am going to peck you! I don't
want to fall out of this nest yet.

Am I Gorgeous or what? I am the first
Kestrel to jump out of the nest and I am a ham!
These girls and their cameras don't scare me.

This is one of my brothers... He's just as handsome as
I am pretty.

I"ll pose pretty for you..

I have to clean up now ... but you can see me and my 5
brothers in the slide show right here on the top right of the
blog. I have pretty brown stripes on my breast
and brown rust and white feathers. My brothers
have black dots on their chests and a slate blue tint
to their wing feathers and tops of their heads.
We both share beautiful big eyes and dark stripes
on our faces. We are one of the most colorful
falcons in the world.

Once in a Lifetime....

For me this is a 'Once in a Lifetime' experience.
I feel so blessed to have witnessed it!

The Red arrow shows the nest sight and the square box
is the first Female Kestrel that came out of the nest.
Quite a little drop. She was seen on the ground in the parking
lot by barbie when she arrived last Friday.

Mom and Dad were watching and screaming...
I don't know if that was a cheering section or a
warning... Mom screams and dad does an alarm!

You ask "How did the little baby get back on the lower roof?"
Well like any smart gal would do ..she takes the steps!!

She hopped and flapped until she reached the top

Looking quite smug when she got there.

She is seen doing the Victory Dance across the roof.

Fluffing a few feathers... glad to be free

Yes, Mom I'm OK..

Or is she looking at her brother still up there and saying
'Come on Down!"

Are you still watching me dad?

Believe it or not .. This is the one and only picture I could get of the baby kestrel being fed. Dad is seen here bringing food and baby's mouth is wide open. They are so secretive about this duty that it is difficult to catch them in the act. I feel blessed to have had this opportunity to document, and share the nesting and fledging of these beautiful illusive falcons.





Stay tuned for the baby album to come and more Kestrel~antics.

To God be the Glory ~ Great Things He Hath done!