Pretty Peacocks, no Penguins.

I'll be posting more about the whole altered book thing later on today, but for now. . .Letter P in the A-Z Photo Challenge is Peacock!

No matter how many times I see them they never fan out their beautiful tails for me. This is all they let me see. So I gave up on the tail and concentrated on the head.

I do love their little top knot of tiny feathers.

Hello Mr Brown-eyes.

Until this year, I never knew white Peacocks existed.

See, all white, Pale.

And I guess this mottling of color is what happens when you mix a colorful Pretty Peacock and a Pale Peacock? You get a Partly Pretty Peacock. lol

Mr Green-eyes?

Crazy Kangaroo Sleeper

How does this kangaroo sleep this way?

Bird Blessings

To keep in practice, or maybe because I just like to, I have been snapping photos of birds in our own yard and the woods across form our house when I am home all day. Sometimes you just need a break from laundry, dishes, or even blogging and scrap booking. :0)

Not sure what this guy is, but he looked so cute in the bush of berries I snapped anyway.

I think this is a sad looking Bluebird, but I could be wrong.

We have so many Downy Woodpeckers lately, it’s just amazing. We still have on Hairy Woodpecker too but he’s more shy, kinda like the Red-bellied, they just like to stay out range of me. Dang them!

Ever since I started bird watching I had been wanting to see a Cedar Waxwing and this year I was lucky enough to see several. First I saw them in Wisconsin Rapids, then in an Iowa rest area and then, to my surprise, in the woods across from my house.

I really enjoyed watching them, even if they would pose for me to get some awesome shots. Only mediocre ones.

Bygones, maybe next year they will be more cooperative.

Not sure what this one is, but I still feel blessed to have had about 10 of them migrate through this fall.

Another view of the mysterious bird.

Even simple Sparrows make me happy.

This Sparrow looked different than the ones I’m used to seeing. I think it’s a White-throated Sparrow, but he didn’t stick around long.

Clueless, just not sure, but it’s a pretty little thing, no?

The word kinglet comes to mind but really don’t know what it is.

Some birds venture near this nest (bottom) in the tall pine next to our driveway. The nest has appeared to be empty and abandoned since we’ve lived here, although one of the new squirrel babies worked a little on it for about a week. But it appears empty, unless, maybe, just possibly, the flying squirrel lives there now?

Porcupine Macro Monday

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign Mr Linky.

Have I introduced you to my charming friend?

Mr Snizzles says that he looks scarier than he actually is.

Would you like a quill? You can use one with a bottle of ink to write fancy letters. Go ahead, take your pick.

Participants:

FAW

Would you believe this is art? Yes, it’s Forest Art and this is a continuation of the post on Tuesday.

Before we long we came up a turtle big enough to eat us.

Luckily, this is his tail end.

I think he’d make a good house, don’t you?

Near the tail of the wooden turtle there’s a Worldwide Letterbox Rubber Stamp Circle Poem (worldwideletterboxrubberstampcirclepoem). Of course, I had no paper so I stamped my leg, then promptly forgot about it and washed it off unknowingly in the tub. Let’s go inside the tortoise.

See, he would make a nice home, there’s a front door, back door, and skylights.

Here’s the nose. To the left is a river for us to fetch water from for our new home.

After I quit walking backwards and turned back around I discovered another art piece up ahead. The last on our walk.

This is the Tornado.

Beautiful and impressive, no?

Dennis is on his knees, but still, look how massive!

Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz

Well, I did not attract one butterfly with the feeder. But I found a few small things with wings to take photos of anyway.

This guy is a yellow jacket.

This one is a Bald-faced Hornet, or White-faced Hornet, and he was featured in my last Macro Monday.