No idea-I just know I'm pushing right along with her!

Isn't #1 eating just the cutest thing?

Great Dane giving birth live!

http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/great-dane-service-puppies-indoor-puppy-room

No clue---some wild hair there!

http://youtu.be/4vTVuUtp4fM

A quick video of Beauty on FCT yesterday

I'm not really sure, but I would guess if they were going to clad the ledge they wouldn't bother with a pretty stucco coat. I suspect they're going to clad either the front edge of the ledge where the bump-outs were removed or the window frames.

I think it will be fine as long as it's back before winter is over.  And I suspect it will be sooner than that.

We are talking about Quest who started her first scrape in the crumbling concrete dust on that ledge. She doesn't discourage easily.

I'm looking forward to seeing this one! 

 

 

You call that a stoop?

 

Amateur! 

 

Is it just my eyes or did Harlie leave a permanent record? 

I emailed CPF, of course...just got an answer...

Yes, we have been watching them very closely indeed.  I was up to Harlequin last week and spent a few hours documenting their progress and snapped some photos.  Our provincial wildlife resources gave them the permits that they need to remove the nest box so that they can carry on with the repairs.

There are several steps in the work with three different contractors and three different trades involved.  Each ledge is prepped, (scraped and sanded, then brushed off).  Then the mortar is applied to the entire ledge, (base, sides, back/rear, and above under the overhang/roof).  This must be allowed to dry before the sealer coat is done,, (another step).  Then we’re told that the aluminum contractor comes in to clad various parts of the ledges with aluminum cladding. (Not quite sure just what they are cladding), but this contractor will not come in until all of the mortar and the sealer coating is completed.

The nest box was to be taken to the roof and will not return until the aluminum work is completed.

They must have been in very early, as we noticed that the nest box was gone by 9am. 

Thanks!  He's even more striking in real life. I am now on a mission to get a non-window picture of them!

I'd say Purple Finch.

That would be great! I've never actually been able to ID one for sure here.

Bluebird...really thought they had left already



Red-bellied woodpecker



Blue jay



Cardinal & some House sparrows

Please excuse the dirty windows...they all hide when I go outside...

So...is this fellow a purple finch or a house finch?



I really didn't question it-figured it was an average house finch-until I saw the female.

 

Female above



Female right

She just seems so much stripier than I recall female house finches being that I started to doubt myself.

Opinions? Thanks!