It Has Been a Long Time I never thought I’d be the blogger writing “it’s been a long time since my last blog” blog, but here I am. That said, I will skip the ramble about how life gets in the way of writing and go straight to what’s happening at Little Piney now. SpringContinue reading
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Another Spring at Little Piney Bastrop TX
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Fun Facts About Eastern Bluebirds from the Texas Bluebird Society Season Kickoff
Texas Bluebird Society Season Kick-off Bluebirders are friendly people as you might imagine! I felt very welcome at my first Texas Bluebird Society meeting Saturday at the Bastrop Convention Center. The meeting was impressively well-run, lots of fun, and packed with good information. I enjoyed meeting my Bluebird-hosting peers. We speak the same jargon of predatorContinue reading
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Bluebirds and Bluebonnets
Bluebirds, Blue Skies Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long – Irving Berlin, Blue Skies, 1927 It’s nesting time at Little Piney with lots of activity on the nest box trail! In a courting ritual, Mr. Bluebird tries to persuadeContinue reading
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Bluebird Nest Boxes for Total Beginners
How to Install Bluebird Nest Boxes Little Piney hosts a healthy population of Eastern Bluebirds. They are encouraged to settle here by good habitat and available real estate. We have 7 bluebird nest boxes put in place several years ago by previous owners. Recently, I removed all nest boxes for cleaning and fresh paint,Continue reading
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Slash: A Mixed Use High Rise Development for Birds
What is Slash? When our wildlife plan suggested we create brush piles and maintain “slash” I had no idea what slash meant. Well, below is a photo of slash, an architecturally stunning, mixed use high rise for birds in a prime location in the Little Piney area of the Lost Pines, Bastrop, Texas! Maintaining slashContinue reading
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Wet Weather Spring, Robber Fly, and Nest Box Blues
Wet-weather Spring Dragonfly Pond was a gift of the Memorial Day weekend rains in Central Texas. This lovely pond is usually more of a shallow bog, maybe a foot deep at the deepest point. Water seeps out of its sandy bottom with the usual light rains we have. When we first saw a reddishContinue reading
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Nest Box Surprises
Newly hatched Eastern Bluebirds When I checked Box 2 by Dragonfly Pond today, I found two tiny baby bluebirds nestled together with three unhatched eggs . I’ve never seen baby birds this young before, all pink and blue with little wispy beginnings of feathers on their heads. If you zoom in you can seeContinue reading
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Dragonfly Pond at Little Piney
Gift from the rain: Dragonfly pond at Little Piney The rain left a gift for us at Little Piney–a beautiful pond. The pond was carved out by previous owners in a lovely curved shape, but the sandy bottom doesn’t hold water. For now, thanks to record rainfall, it’s full of water and life,Continue reading
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The Nest Box Report–Baby chickadees!
When we acquired Little Piney, we took on a wildlife management plan already in action. As part of the wildlife plan, we became custodians of 7 Bluebird nest boxes. After we located all 7 little bird houses on poles, we made sure the boxes were cleaned out and ready for residents. That involves removing oldContinue reading
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Bluebirds and chickadees: Full house at Little Piney
Big excitement at Little Piney this week! No Vacancy in the nest boxes! It’s a full house at Little Piney for the bluebirds and chickadees. When I made my rounds this week, I discovered 7 nests–3 with bluebird eggs, 3 with chickadee eggs, one box with a completed nest just waiting for eggs, andContinue reading