Photographed in my Garden Today: New Baby Birds! by: brendasue

Welcome Everyone!  New Summer Baby Birds in the Nest. Come in and have a Look.  Nature Break!

Floating Rose             by:  brendasue


Hot, Hot, Hot and More Hot. I love these Hot Texas Days in August, but most of the flowers in the garden would rather be at ninety instead of 100! The first coldfront is just around the corner.

Butterfly basking in the Sun                     by:  brendasue




Today the Photostudy Special is:  Baked Birds In Nest.  Here at Kates Cabin in the backyard garden is a nest of baby cardinals. This is the third set for Big Dad this year! 

Let The Class Begin!

Take a look at this nest. They have used plastic bread wrapper from somewhere as part of the building material!

When the baby Cardinals hatch out of their egg, they have no feathers and their eyes are not open. They do not get out of the nest until it is time to fly away.

The babies spend most of their early days sleeping.  If you touch the side of the nest, they will wake up and open their mouth waiting for food the Mom and Dad bring them. They like worms and fat, juicy bugs. The only way they get liquid is from what they eat. They do not drink milk. I have never seen a parent bring water to them in the nest.

They have a fuzzy down  that will be replaced by feathers soon. They will be ready to fly away in 5 to 7 days from now.

Above you can see their fat bare belly. The feathers are starting to come on the wings.

The necks of the birds look odd at this point.  They are so flat.

His eyes are just beginning to open.  Hello, little one.

See if you can locate the little ear holes under the eyes.

This concludes our Photostudy on the new baby birds at Kates Cabin.  If you know someone who has never seen a baby bird, please share this blog. My Grand Daughter loves  this little nature book I am writing. It is important to bring Nature into Your Life.

This is the Daddy Cardinal. They grow up to have red feathers! (the males)  Females are brown.

Who Is This Watching the Sunset?

Yes, you are right, it is a hummingbird watching the sunset with me!

And, There goes another Day......Gone Forever. (But I caught the sunset for us!)

Goodnight All. Thanks for stopping by.




.....this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek


Happy Trails To You














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Yet Another Battle at Rainbow Creek. Come and See. by: brendasue

Good Evening Class.  Welcome to Rainbow Creek

Look Everybody,   It is Punker to open our class today.

Let The Class Begin!     Thanks, Punker.

Who is that with you?

I see.  It is your new baby girl,  Welcome.

Punker has just brought her to the gate feeding station today to learn how to eat seed.

The last time you saw this babe, she was in the nest in an egg!

Welcome to all of the Cardinal families that live at Rainbow Creek Bird Sanctuary.

(Punker was the baby last year).

As I was coming down the stairway to Heaven, I just happen to glance at this fence post and exclaim:  What is That?

It is a lizard shedding his skin.  Unlike Humans, Reptile skin does not stretch.

So when they grow larger, they simply pop out of the old skin into the new skin underneath. I have seen this several times, usually in the spring when they awake from their hibernation (long winter nap). It takes several hours for them to completely shed the old layer.

So our Photostudy today will be on the shedding lizard and who is that with him?

He is looking to see where that other guy went

Well Class, it appears it is our lucky day. There is a fierce territorial dispute going on over who is King of this fence post. Today I will bring you part one and tomorrow, I will reveal the winner in part two.

Warning:  As many things in Nature are violent, there are some graphic photos where you may notice bloody mouth.  That is their weapon of Choice.

As the Battle on Rainbow Creek begins, they puff up their bodies with air to appear big and mean.

They strut their stuff, showing off who is the mean green fighting machine.

A helmet appears on their head during this aggressive display.

I would assume the one shedding his skin would be at a disadvantage as he was preoccupied stretching out of his skin.

They show their teeth to each other.

And circle around each other eyeing each other.

You sure are ugly, said one.

It appears whoever gets to the top wins the post.

Excuse me,    this is my Post!

I dedicate this Battle to Naturedigital in Greece. He enjoys the battlefields of Nature!

Hi Costas! Thanks for all your nice comments. I enjoy seeing your beach in Greece.

Okay, back to the heated Battle.

I will claim this post for God and my Country.

What Country are you claiming, you ugly dumb lizard and you are green.

The mighty King!

Yes, He is a little ugly. (But loved by his Mom anyway).

I got the Lamp Post!

And I am going to get you as you are butt ugly.

Who do you think you are talking to, you wimp?

I will Eat You Alive!   (not really)

Is your Mother as ugly as you?

Hey!  It looks like you are loosing your skin!

And it looks like you are dead meat.

I claim the lamp post.

What happen to your ugly Mouth?

You Mother.... I am going to Kill you!

To be Continued..........Who do you think the winner is???

...........this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek.

Goodnight All.

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