Another Mess

The elusive birds have finally been captured by Prince. Try as I might as soon as I appeared in the window, they would fly away and not return for awhile. The big white house on the hill to the left was built by Noah Liff.

There are two and the one on the back is the usual pose.

Mr. Pretty Bird is wondering what is in the window checking him out.

Mr. Pretty Bird is thinking "Huh, I know there is something there but what?"

Now if I turn my back, and look over my wing, it will go away.

Ah ha, I see you move Mr. Prince and I am gonna fly off until you disappear.

Lewis, Prince's father, marked with an "X" in the bird book kept in the kitchen drawer any bird that he had seen on the hill. In 1992, I was sitting at the kitchen table and along came this bird. I knew not what he was as I had never seen one before. I pulled out the bird book and located him and there was not an "X" by him so I proudly placed one and then the year.

So far each year this stately bird appears about this time. The longest they have ever stayed in a month. They stop by for a snack on their way to Canada from South America. The female looks like a female purple finch on steroids.

This year they appeared and for over a week we have been trying to take a picture. As soon as you get your camera out they fly away. I guess you can say they are camera shy.

They never fly straight to the feeder. First they land on the back side of the Holly tree and work their way around to the feeder. Usually they have a scout, who tests the area first and then the others will come down to feed. The year they stayed a month the weather was rather cool but as soon as it got hot, they were out of here.

Lewis never saw these beautiful birds but Noah kept his word to Lewis when he bought the land across the road. Lewis died in 1975, so he had sold the land to Noah years ago but in the last part of the twentieth century, Noah did as he promised. He built one house on the land he bought from Lewis. I bet when Noah met Lewis in Heaven, Lewis thanked him for being a man of his word.

The Kitty Justice that the pretty birds will be here only for a short time and that Noah kept his word even though Lewis had been gone a long time.