.........save water, bath with a friend? Someone must have told the sparrows, as they crammed as many as possible into the bird bath
then the starlings decided to join in
but were politely told to leave, as the sparrows were in the middle of their ablutions
so they waited until the sparrows were finished
the birdbath wasn't quite so crowded yesterday, when this very young sparrow came for a drink
when he flew off to sit on a shrub, you could see he still had his juvenile feathers
this starling posed nicely on top of the telegraph pole
while the swallows congregated on the phone wire
the nuthatch was poking about in the border
and a tiny wren was bobbing about in one of the shrubs - but even at maximum zoom, I couldn't quite get it in focus
so now for some sewing. I wanted to do some more with my new rulers, so I thought I would combine it with an Angela Walters class that I watched on Craftsy at the weekend. I started by marking a square on my practice piece
having stitched round the square, I marked dots around the edge, ready to quilt the design, using the straight ruler
having stitched the straight lines .....
....... I decided to do some fmq in half of the triangles
then this afternoon I had another play with the straight ruler, creating a geometric shape
before playing with the curved one
creating an abstract shape
some of which I filled in with fmq
and to finish, we have another cute bird - my latest attempt at an owl!