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Category Archives: The Feeder Feed
The Feeder Feed: Oriole edition
A different way to present the feeder: I still need to figure out the settings on the camera so that I don’t have to convert the video to something I can post easily using the Podpress plugin for WordPress. Anyone … Read More
The Feeder Feed and Penjing Report
Another dimension of the feeder…. Mr. Grosbeak paying attention to junior. Please help feed the birds. They are on short commons right now. PENJING REPORT Some first aid followed by benign neglect have served to bring Penjing back from the … Read More
The Feeder Feed: sacred arts edition
The Feeder Feed finds me again at the Metropolitan Museum… the air-conditioned Metropolitan. Eucharistic Dove in gilded copper with enamel and glass beads from Limoges from 1215-35. This would have hung over the altar. There is a tear shaped door … Read More
The Feeder Feed: oddities
There is a lot of activity at the feeders right now, but only sparse fare, I’m afraid. But some interesting sights have come around. This wren is declaring its mastery of this little house. Thrashers have particularly beady eyes. This … Read More
The Feeder Feed
Some shots from the feeder. The expert grape jelly eater. A young male Oriole has found the bonus of a spider in his jelly. Young make Red-Breasted Grosbeak. A not so young male Red-Breasted Grosbeak. A seriously annoying young Hairy … Read More
The Feeder Feed: baby edition
There are new birds at the feeders. They are literally new: some of them are babies. Some shots will following in the next days. Here is a adult male Hairy Woodpecker with baby in tow. The young one makes a … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Renaissance edition
Here is a painting at the Metropolitan in Manhattan, depicting Eve with Cain and Abel, an unusual subject. It is by the Florentine Bacchiacca (+1557 – Francesco d’Ubertino). It once included the figure of Adam, and so this painting was … Read More
The Feeder Feed – literally
Here is a long distance edition of the Feeder Feed. I am in Manhattan, but I was checking the webcams at the feeders back home to see what was up and if any of them were empty. Here is what … Read More
Of rotted fish juice lunch and of gardens and of feeders
I want to thank EC of NY for lunch today. EC of NY sent some garum… yes… garum. I have written about garum several times (check here and here.), but most recently in the form of colatura, a super concentrated … Read More
The Feeder Feed
I had an odd experience today. I went out to put more grape jelly in the little cups on the bird feeder apparatus. As I was doing so, I heard directly behind me – but close – a loud strange … Read More
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