Here are my two favourite views from our house. The first is from our deck towards the city. We're considered inner city where we live as it's only a short 10 minute drive to the city centre 🙂 The tower in the distance is a well known feature of the city, although I'm not sure many Reiders have been here.
The second is from my desk (which sits under a window). The honeyeater pictured is one of a parade of birds who frequent the bird bath (which is an old satellite dish). The ones who come often I name. This guy is Ugly. I also have a bee hotel on the old tree stump - you can see the top of it in the photo. The majority of our native bees are solitary and live in plant stems, tree hollows and burrow into clay, so our Air Bee & Bee has lots of hollows for them to move into.
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Lovely views! And an "Air Bee and Bee" is just too cute!
Very nice. Love your nature stations.
I'm curious to know what the tower in the distance is. I too love your play on words with "Air Bee & Bee."
Hello, Ugly! Although, you look pretty cool to me. And what a brilliant idea, an Air Bee & Bee.
I know the Honeyeater is not an east coast bird, so this must be another Oregonian. It is beautiful.
We have a hollow live oak that the local bees have decided that they like better than the boxes I prepped for them.
An absolutely beautiful day down here in Tampa and I'm lucky if I can walk fifty feet. Had to evacuate a ladder from about six feet up and trashed a knee. It is staying in place better today, but it likes to tell me about doing stoopid things.
Boy, was I wrong. I googled the honeyeater, because I had never before encountered one. They are Australian or from New Zealand, not America.
Sorry.
Yes, I googled the honeyeater too! (after googling "iconic towers in the world," which is not a great idea if you're not braced for seeing a couple of them on fire *sigh*)
Then I googled towers in Australia and it was pretty easy to find this one. Also, this city has regular hot air balloon rides!
Now I can't remember which of our reef dwellers lives on that coast vs the western one. AJ, is it you? Great pics, whoever sent them, thank you!
Craig, please be more careful! My knees are wincing in empathy.
Yes, it is me! I'm in Canberra, which is Australia's capital city - commonly called the bush capital, because of our size and how much bush we have. You drive through bush and kangaroos and seconds later are in the city centre. We're only a small capital (popn 400k, as opposed to Sydney's 5.3 million).
And yes, you can go for hot air balloon rides. We even have a hot air balloon festival in March.
Ugly is a Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus for any ornithologists here).
Ha! Not surprising that I saw that pic and knew at once who it was! (AJ and I are Canberra buddies).
Looks like it's the Birds & the Bees today on the blog ;-)
Wonderful views, AJ! Love the hot air balloons and the clever hotel for your native bee species.
Hah, Sam. I knew if you stopped by you'd know it was me :)
Looks so peaceful. A great place to write.
Brenda
AJ! What a gorgeous view. I want to visit.
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