tillylamp

hi bud, the grackle is in the icterid family.......Icterids make up a family (Icteridae) of small- to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The species in the family vary widely in size, shape, behavior, and coloration. the full version is on wikipedia.......tilly

hi mickey, such a pretty coloured bird and like you say likes a ruckus.....lol i made a bird table the other day and we had eight of them on and around it in one hit.....they were squabbling and fighting each other.....lol

it's a blue jay bud and the other one is a common grackle.....

a couple from the garden.....

yeah...with that windchill we could feel our eyes and noses starting to freeze with in minutes...and any bare skin on show started to go numb......

i'm now living in nova scotia....i'm from the uk born and bred.....

most of canada gets snow at some time....my mate in calgary got ten inches of snow 8 weeks ago now....when we lived in calgary the coldest it got was a -34 windchill.... i think the thing is...here in canada it's a guarantee that snows on it way come winter so there prepared for it ie...snowplows, gritters, snow tires etc.... whereas the uk might get some one year and not the next..... my boss takes off snowmobiling around january for a week or so....he goes off for miles at a time.....

we had 4-5 inches of snow yesterday with a -9 wind chill.....and icicles a foot long hanging off my workshop roof......

if your thinking of a 7.5 toner have a look at the ex mobile library vans, there already half way there.....lighting, heating, insulated and wall sockets.....probably wouldn't take much to finish it the way you won't it.....

good weather here at the moment.....a sweltering 35 degrees today......it's been around 30 for a while now........cooling down a bit by the weekend.....

your welcome bud.....thank you for sharing.....

nice pics micky....my wife had a northern cardinal fly into the door way to her office a while back.....stunning birds in the flesh....

curious buggers them cows......did he have a chew on your shirt......

there's a couple of fights {not that old though} i enjoyed watching......the first is ....Michael Gomez beating that Scottish twat Alex Arthur.....and then the Diego Corrales vs José Luis Castillo fight, that was a good one......

whilst out walking came across this garter snake sunning it's self.....totally harmless