Months in the Making

Some images require some advance planning to make them happen. These bluebird images were months in the making. In late winter I put up five bluebird nest boxes out at the Burris ranch.This spring the bluebirds chose one of the nest boxes to use. Of the other four swallows have taken up residence in two of them. One was knocked down by the horses using it as a back rub! The remaining nest box wasn't used by anything.
I have been monitioring the bluebirds progress. Just this week I put up a meal worm feeder nearby the nest box. I also added a knothole front piece of bark to the box once I found out the bluebirds were feeding thier young. Yesterday I set up a photoblind and slowly moved it closer and closer to the nest box during the day. So it took a few months and the bluebirds help to create these images.

God's love and blessings to all,

chris

Prospective Tenant

I just got back on Friday from a five day fishing and photography trip to Pyramid Lake in Nevada. I have been buried in images to process so that is why there hasn't been any postings on the Photoblog recently. Yesterday I took a break from the computer and went out to the Burris Ranch to restock the bird feeders and set up the photo blind. I'm glad I did because one feeder was empty and the other one was half full. When I was done I sat on the tail gate of my truck and just watched the birds coming and going. I happened to look down hill at one of the bird houses I erected and lo and behold there was a male Western Bluebird checking out the prospective lodgings. Hopefully he and his wife will move in and have a family for me to photograph coming and going.

God is good all the time,
chris

Buried in Bird Boxes

I have been woefully neglect in keeping up the bird boxes on our property. For the past few days I have been attempting to rectify that situation by building some more nesting boxes. Hopefully I can get the family to help me in putting some of them up before the storms hit this next week. I built eight owl boxes and about fourteen small bird boxes. I have enough lumber left to still build about a dozen more small bird boxes. Hopefully this will have a positive impact on the numbers of small birds we have around here.

God's blessings and love to all,

chris