Hector Frozen & the Chr-Chr Bird Sings

Hector is my spitting frog.  I bought him a few years ago and finally plumbed him into the pump system so he would spit, hopefully, year-round.  This is his first winter and I guess I'll have to come up with a plan "F" since Hector is now officially FROZEN.

Here are some pictures of Hector taken between December 17 and the day after Christmas.

 

 As you can see he is trying to spit but it's more like a drool.

  

Still at it but I wonder if there is a frog in there somewhere?

 

 

Here we are on the day after Christmas... What ice?  What snow?

And finally today, two days after Christmas, Hector is frozen solid and as soon as I can get him out of his ice restraints I will put him in the garage to defrost. In the mean time I expect a leak from a frozen pipe when things warm up again.

Joe had the right idea.  I doubt very much if she is worried at all about the weather.

On top of all the freezing weather this morning with the thermometer reading single digits I heard the call of the Chr-Chr bird... it is something like this: Chr... Chr... Chr... Christ it's COLD out here!

A Fly-by

Bill Cosby said that he was 11 years old before he discovered his name wasn't Jesus Christ and his brother wasn't named Dammit... as in "Jesus Christ what the hell are you doing.  Damnit, stop doing that!"  I still think that is pretty funny

My mother used to say, "If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times...."  My father used to say, "Son, now what have I told you...."  To continue with that theme I will repeat myself:  Things happen so very fast in the never ending interaction between predator and prey.  I be talk'n 'bout that interaction thing go'n on in my backyard don'tyaknow.

The little birdies are feeding on the sunflower seeds and millet that I put in the feeder on a daily basis.  Then, poof, they are all sit'n in the Mulberry Tree and a hawk comes zooming (as in zooming really fast) toward the bird feeder.  The hawk hits the feeder causing it to spin wildly and bird seed flies out like a fireworks pin-wheel. 

The hawk continued on without lunch and the little birdies started feeding on the ground with the newly deposited seeds resting on top of the snow.

Elapsed time... about 3 seconds. 

Imagine what we are missing just because we aren't watching at the right moment.