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Bluebird Chicks

July 18, 2022 /

“Somebody gimme a treatstick! I’m hungry! Oh goodie…..it’s Bird Lady! Maybe she’s got one in her pocket for me!” I don’t think this bluebird chick would have cared which hand or beak fed it, had I reached over onto the roses and pulled off one of the grasshoppers to give it. The parents work in tandem but hold at a distance on the pear trees with bugs in beak until we leave the porch, in this case a trip to the store. I can almost hear “will you guys get outa here!? This thing’s getting stale.” For anyone close to us who knows the symbolism of these brightly colored birds for us, it is special to have them nesting in a ceramic saguaro at Cactus Island. With the new soil recipe a fellow grower recommended for growing my own batch of young Carnegia in Florida, someday the bluebirds might nest in a real one up the hill. Below is the short video of the baby bluebird chirping along with one or two behind it and out of sight.

James V. Freeman is an established visual artist (oil painting) with a deep interest in natural history, plants and farming. He has had numerous solo shows, a solo museum show, an upcoming museum show and his work has been featured in many publications to date. He currently has a studio in Williston, Fl at the family farm and homestead, "Cactus Island", and as a farmer, specializes in growing columnar cacti of the Caribbean and Gulf countries as well as the aquatic Madegascar Lace Plant. James and his mom Sharon manage and develop the permaculture homestead.

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