More sightings, more possibilities

[wayfaringwordhack]

ETA: You cannot imagine--OK, maybe you can--how frustrated I get with DWs cut feature.  I always have to try multiple times before the cuts function. I will try one more time, and if it does not work, I apologize now if you feel I am photo-spamming you.  Mea culpa. :( OK, I lied; I am trying twice.... THRICE! ARGH!


Sightings:

We have a very, very skittish new visitor to the bird feeder, a great spotted woodpecker* (pic épeiche), and I vow to get a better photo. In the meantime, observe that Friendly would like a close encounter with the birds, too >.<

  And the common chaffinches are back. Wikipedia says they are year-round residents here, but there is a part of the year where I don't see much of them. Again, I will try to get better photos through a non-foggy window:  

So far, the chaffinch and woodpecker are only visiting the front feeder.

Yesterday, we packed up several meals and some snacks to take to a friend who has broken her leg.  She and her husband help run a democratic school and are currently rennovating the house they just bought.  Add to those huge projects four kids who are involved in lots of extra-curricular activities and you have a recipe for stress and over-tiredness.  We hope that by taking care of some of their cooking duties, they might get a little relief.  It is a pity that they live an hour away and we can't be more present for them on a day-to-day basis. 

 

On the road, Sprout started working on her taking-photos-from-a-moving-vehicule technique:
 

 

The trees on the Col de la Soeur are different from the ones we have around here

 

Possibilities:

J is going to do a month-long mission in Italy this winter.  I hope the kids and I can go visit him there for a week or so, depending on policies concerning the virus.  I would like to add another country to my list.  Speaking of lists, I was sad to see that my links in this post and this one are no longer working.  I entered some info into another site and then took a screenshot so the same will not happen to me again. :-/

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___________ *Make that "woodpeckers" because I saw two in the tree together today. :D  I got a pic of one in the willow, but it is 4-5 meters farther than the linden tree, where the feeder hangs, so I don't know that it will be worth posting.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Is the woodpecker quite large? The chaffinches are sweet ^_^

And I love the dark sky, bright trees S's first photo!

What do the different shades represent in your map of places you've been?

[wayfaringwordhack]

Is the woodpecker quite large?
They are compared to the sparrows (which wikipedia tells me there is a difference between New World and Old World sparrows!) and the chaffinches; they are 20–24 cm (7.9–9.4 in) long, which is slightly smaller than a blue jay.

What do the different shades represent in your map of places you've been?

The darkest color is where I was born, the bright pink where I have lived, and the purplish majority color is places I have been/visited.

[asakiyume]

I guessed about the darkest color but wasn't sure about the others!