My daughter and I are raising a monarch caterpillar into a butterfly. I took a picture of it today to keep track for our log. I love to make mandalas, and have not done so in a while, so I thought this the perfect media for today.
When you make a digital mandala from a photograph, you choose which part of the photograph will make the kaleidoscope image of your mandala. You can choose to zoom in so much so that no one can tell what you created the image from, or you can zoom out and include much of the picture, so that it is easy to tell what the image is of.
I enjoy doing both, and today I want to make a design with the leaf and the body of the caterpillar and still show that it was a caterpillar.
I did not know there were little yellow aphids all over the milkweed until I took the photo and uploaded it. I decided to leave them in the mandala as well. Some might see them as nasty little bugs, but look at the mandala; there is so much beauty in life that we choose not too see…
There’s so many things hidden too…
Look for the hidden caterpillar heads that are created from the image itself; there are eight large ones (*hint look at the diamond and the square)
If you’ve found yourself in a situation where you felt you had to rescue a baby bird, you’ll need all the details and steps in this article at eHow.com!
Remember that all birds eat different things, this article is on the Dove species, in general its the same principal, but some may require the addition of worms!:
* see link at bottom if you found this page becuz you have found a baby bird!*
Tweety is a white wing dove baby (about 5/6 wks old now) that my husband rescued after destroying its home (home owner wanted the tree removed, and no-one realized the baby was there). Many attempts (and 5 or 6 hours) were made to get the mother and father to take him back, but they either did not recognized him or were just too confused with the pieces of their home lying scattered about. My husband brought him home to me. Unable to get Tweety to the nearest rehab center (which is 40 miles away), I took him in as my animal baby – Adding to our family of 30 something chickens, 5 turkeys, 4 ducks, 2 diamond doves and one feisty Cockatiel.
His name is Tweety because the cat didn’t get him! We were afraid that if my husband left him at the home owners’ (hoping the parents would finally locate/recognize him) that a cat or other animal would find him over night, and night was already close!
Some say that we should have let nature take it’s course… It was too far past that because it had already been interrupted when my husband took down the tree!
I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason – and Tweety is truly a gift from Nature! I am honored the we were ‘picked’ to take care of each other!
*see an earlier blog to see Tweety eating when he was a bit younger and still ‘chugging’.
I am sure that a professional would accomplish this task with a little more dignity, but this is what we worked out between the two of us. It is easiest to put my fingers around each side of his face and he will open up to chug. The biggest problem is that his head bounces all around. So I try and steady him with my two fingers until he/we get the ‘chug’ action going. He seems to get higher and higher off the ground; I’m not picking him up its just like he stretches higher and higher in my hand.
This video was from a week or so ago, we are now weaning now and he eats right out of my hand. I put the feed on my opened hand on the fingers end. This way he puts his beak in between my fingers to gobble down the food.
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My ducks taking a bath. Ducks are messy and their water must be changed daily. They like to take food into their mouth and spit it out into the water. And of course poo in the water. As soon as I clean their pools they love to go for a splash. In this video I haven’t even gotten their rocks back against the pools for them to use as steps to get in; they just couldn’t wait!
