Saturday, April 25, 2009

My new birdhouse... er... motel


Here is my new birdhouse. Leigh and I were at Prairie Fest in Fort Worth today (she was working the Best Friends Animal Society booth) and I found this place with these cool birdhouses. The guy who does them is named Robert Castro and he's a Fort Worth artist that designs these crazy retro birdhouses. His site is Hyperlink to birdhouseconcepts.com. He has some pretty cool designs.

I think I talked him into possibly designing some bathouses as well!

Weird places birds build nests

A few weeks ago, I bought a plant with some flowers on it ( geranium ivy, I think). The weather was crazy and so I couldn't hang it for awhile (too cold). I finally put it up on Easter weekend and then the flowers all died. Oh well. Here's the plant:


Later, I saw this bird couple hanging out in the plant and pulling stems and leaves out. Apparently, my yard is prime bird real estate and these two had trouble finding a spot to nest. So they used my hanging plant. We noticed that the female was hanging out in the plant more often so this evening, while she was out and about, I took a peek at what was going on. Here's what I found: