Tag Archives: hawk

A Sharp Shinned Hawk Snatched a Bird From our Feeder

May 7, 2008 – 7:29 pm

Well, I was so busy yesterday I didn’t actually get to do my normal daily post, so this is a Tuesday/Wednesday version. We spent most of Tuesday in town doing all the various chores we normally do when we take our orders into USPS.

Tuesday is also the day I continue with my guitar lessons, so that was a quick 30 minutes and then on to the post office and everything else. Today, Wednesday was a calmer day of work from the home office, and I did get a good bit of work done today. It is always nice when you don’t have to drive into town at all. Deborah did spend most of the day in town today, getting her hair done for the upcoming 2008 National Polka Festival. We will be heading out to Dallas for a nice visit with family and polkas.

New Music Arrivals

Received several new albums from my friends over at lala, thanks for the new tunes guys. On the list for today was:

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step (great album, wow)
  • Incubus - Make Yourself
  • Men at Work - Business As Usual (not tops on my list but makes for a rounded collection, I think)
  • Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Greatest Hits (replacement for one damaged in shipment)
  • Robbie Williams - The Ego Has Landed (replacement from one damaged in shipment)
  • Alan Parsons - Try Anything Once

Nature in View

Well, today we had a new visitor. We had a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. Had never seen one before today, but he managed to snatch a finch right out of one of our feeders and proceed to have a feast right there in the yard. It wasn’t the first time a hawk has presented himself for a meal, but this Sharp Shinned Hawk was really something to see (I did not take the image below, just didn’t have a chance to get my camera out as fast as he moved).

sharp-shinned_hawk

All gray up top, rustic red color underneath, and apparently, quite hungry. A real treat to see (although probably not for the finch). I ended the night with a wonderful service, called the VIP service and for more on that you can read the current posts from http://d.amasc.us

By Scott Fillmer | Posted in Journal | Also tagged music, nature | Comments (0)

Purchased Revolution Wordpress Theme, We Will See I Guess

April 21, 2008 – 8:00 pm

Revolution Wordpress ThemeToday started off productive and early with work on my editor blog and a few images. I am almost finished now copying all my images over to my new HDD and I can’t wait until the last disc is copied tomorrow. I think I have now copied about 300-400 GB’s of images over form disc. Interesting that these discs are about 5-6 years old now and have already started having error issues, which I will post about on my business blog once I am finished.

The majority of the morning was spent getting all our eBay, Amazon, and various miscellaneous orders together for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a long day with many stops to make and first on the list is to get the orders out.

What’s in a Theme, Revolution

I spent some of the afternoon completely updating all of my blogs to a new theme by Brian Gardner. It wasn’t really a new one, but an update to a set of themes he uses called Revolution. You can read more about it in his post, A Revolutionary Free Blog Theme, but he some other great themes as well. I was finally able to integrate all my 5 main blogs into one design and I think it is much cleaner and work well. In fact, it worked so well I couldn’t tell the difference between my business blog and all the others so I have the title of each at the top left corner of each individual blog.

Nature in View

I was able to get in a very quick walk today and saw the normal hawk flying overhead. We did have a new visitor to our feeder today, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. My book said they were pretty rare down here (or up here for them), but we are in their habitat area. Have never seen one before, a very pretty bird.

rose-breasted grosbeak

We have had some crazy humming birds this year too, but they are usual visitors and they almost seem like pets the way they fight over the feeder.

By Scott Fillmer | Posted in Journal, Media | Also tagged birds, nature, theme | Comments (0)