welcome to camp telophase

Wrens outside the window! (YouTube 26s video)

Despite the cat tree next to myrialux's office window, a pair of wrens have set up shop and are busy feeding babies. Can't see the nest from the window (and we're not going to go outside and disturb them), but I saw a small fly in the beak of one of the wrens after I stopped recording.

Can't tell if they're Carolina wrens or Bewick's because of the shadows--Carolina is more rusty, Bewick's greyish-brown. I posted the video to Reddit's r/whatsthisbird and got back the info that yeah, it's too dark to tell. And their calls scolding D.Va, who was watching and desperate to catch one, sound enough like calls I find on each of those pages that I can't tell that way. XD

At a conference right now, so no birb pics. Well, okay, two birb pics that I got as I was walking back to the hotel from dinner (the long way 'round the block, to hit Pokestops).
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Anyway, the conference is in the city, but my university is one of the host institutions and as A/V liaison I have to be onsite at 7AM daily to deliver laptops to Reg and to the panel rooms, it seemed better to just get a room. Toby showed up last night to have dinner with me at a restaurant we haven't eaten at since it moved downtown, and left for work from the hotel this morning, but he's at home tonight, to try to get some coding done. The cats, apparently, are convinced I'm dead or something and are upset. :)

And my 3-week tension headache of a bit ago was DEFINITELY caused by my pillow because I've woken up with a bad headache every morning from this hotel's pillows. Luckily Excedrin banishes it most of the way. It didn't occur to me to connect the headache with the pillow until Toby was already here, so I couldn't ask him to bring it, alas.

Now off to read until I fall asleep.

I put the camera rig out today. In an attempt to figure out a food mix that would discourage the doves, I filled it half full of finch seed mix, then topped it with freeze-dried mealworms.

It worked! Doves don't like mealworms.

You know who does like mealworms?

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Livecam of a red-tailed hawk nest with three chicks: http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/16/Red-tailed_Hawks/

Also coming home, we discovered that the large bird feeder had fallen at some point during the weekend. We'd had high winds in the metroplex* so I'm not surprised. We did manage to catch it mid-fall, however.

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* Alas for me because I had FANTASTIC hair on Friday morning, wrecked on the walk from the car to dinner in 25 MPH winds and drizzle WOE IS ME. I wore it in a bun the rest of the weekend.