Friday Faces

     Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you. I hope you've had a good past week.  I've been holding down the fort since my husband's back issues (he has a herniated disc in his lower lumbar vertebrae) means he hasn't been able to do much of anything. He's in quite a bit of pain when he's sitting and then leg pain after standing awhile. 😓  He's not the best patient, and I'm a bit of a strict nurse. I don't think he's happy I nag him to follow doctor's orders when he's inclined to  not want to move because of the pain.

    Today I'm joining Nicole at  Friday Face Off   and also Gillena at  Friday Lunch Break.  

    I have one face left from the holidays  to share today. I saw this face back when I went to the light show at Sandy Hill Farm  with my family right before Christmas.  

 They had this giant wizard at the entrance made out of wood and some other items. In many ways it reminded me of one of the troll statues by artist Thomas Dambo, except of course this guy is a wizard not a troll and that he was covered in holiday lights. 

    It's hard to get an actual size of him from these photos, but you can see the 6 foot fence behind him, so let me just say he was huge. 

    The  other faces I have for today are a few from my bird feeder. Some of my bluebirds from last summer's nests are hanging around. They have to compete with this flock of starlings that swoop in and eat most of the meal worms.  Those starlings are cagey too. They sit in the trees just beyond the house and they send one down to check out if I am standing in the doorway. When I am, that bird swoops up onto a branch and starts chattering to his cronies. When I'm not, they swoop in for the food, and I can hear them from inside the house.

 Usually they empty the whole feeder in a matter of minutes. After the starlings fly off, one of the bluebirds will sit  on my  post and stare towards the door hoping to catch my attention so I'll go fill the feeder :)

And when I fill the feeder they all fly in right away.

     The key is that the bluebirds also prefer to eat early in the day, and the starlings just a little bit later.

    The other day once the bluebird flew off the deck post this guy decided to look at me with the hopes I'd throw him some cracked corn. Ha ha. He looks like he's had as pretty good diet this winter, doesn't he?

    And this last photo isn't the best because it's a great example of camouflage, but while we were celebrating back at Christmas, I noticed this guy sitting on the bird feeder. I think he's a Sharp Shinned hawk. You can't really tell his size from this photo, but he wasn't very large. He never did get any holiday dinner at my feeder that day.

    That's all for me today. I hope everyone has a great rest of your Friday and start to your weekend.