Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure

Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure
The Stickfigure Family

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Seagulls in Tulsa, OK

I notice in the winter seagulls here in Tulsa, OK.  Here is a pencil drawing I did from a photograph of a gull while visiting Amsterdam in the 70s.

The birds around our garden are gathering up mates and building nests.  I put bird food out but all except the mocking bird and blue jay ignored it.  I guess they are too busy building nests and trying to claim a birdhouse.  I have 6 on the property, all are occupied by sparrows.  The mocking bird has taken over the magnolia tree from the cardinal and has lived there for the last 5 years.  They love to eat the poke berries from my espaliered poke plants.  The poke plant shown is tied to a metal post driven into the ground then pruned to one stalk to give it an espaliered look.  I leave it standing full of dried berries over the winter for the mocking bird and blue jays to feed on.

Flowering espaliered poke plant

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