Lagniappe Mosaic - In the Garden

in the garden....

I love my garden!! Enjoy videos of my garden and wildlife explorations, as well as additional photos at Flickr.com. (After entering Flickr's site, use your browser back arrow to return to my web site.)

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Lagniappe Mosaic - Garden Mirror Art Videos
My Garden Birds - Videos
My Garden
Dog Granny Annie - My Wonderful Peek-a-Poo Videos
The American Bald Eagles
Wildlife Sightings
Mosaic Artwork by Lagniappe Mosaic
Mosaic Artwork Out and About

My garden is certified as a wildlife habitat #24924 from two organizations, the National Wildlife Federation and the Univ. of Florida Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Getting your garden certified and approved as a wildlife habitat means that you provide food, water, shelter, nesting sites, and protection for birds to raise their young on a continuous basis.

Our garden attracts so many birds and animals. We've had downy woodpeckers in residence, wrens nesting near our doors, red-tailed hawks catching snakes in our trees, great gray herons stealing fish from neighboring fish ponds, and pileated woodpeckers feeding in mass on avocado tree fruit. One very unusual thing we saw was a pileated woodpecker taking a dust bath in our compost pile....

Our most valued sighting.

A Painted Bunting. Twice seen.

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.

For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,

And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,

And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

Kahlil Gabran - The Prophet

Almost considered a pet. Our hummingbird Charlie has come back 4 years now and stays almost 6 months. His feeder is right by our dining room window, so we enjoy him daily. He is always missed, but never forgotten when he migrates north. We're thrilled when he returns. We've yet to recognize that he has a mate and we've seen him fight off other hummingbirds. We've also noticed that he lands in the same spot in different trees. Since he stays so long, he must have a nest, but where I've yet to find.

Our Ruby-Throated

Hummingbird "Charlie"

1/9/07 - First day of the year out in the garden. Fell through the shed roof!

1/16/07 - Saw hundreds of red-breasted robins feeding in Camphor tree.

3/4/07 - Accidentally sprayed face with red spray paint. Measles for a day!

3/17/07 - Snake sighted in the house! I kid you not! It was on it's way out, but I draw the line there with nature!

3/28/07 - Charlie, our hummingbird left today. He was with us for 6 months.

9/17/07 - Charlie returns for the winter

7/1/07 - The cats are gone. We've got our wren nesting by the back door. Late in the season, but she's there.

7/15/07 - Baby wrens leave the nest. (Last year they left 7/25/06)

10/07 - Red tailed hawk lands in tree low to ground during lunch. We were only 10 feet away from him...staring in awe.

3/5/08 - Charlie has left. Stayed again about six months!