So cute 💕
Those "accent" feathers come in dark on stripey birds but eventually open up normally silver/black like they're supposed to. I worried at 1st but relieved when the solid black feathers grew out to be stripey.
Dana w/ some black "accent" feathers that eventually turned normal
Poor feather growth was what I noticed on birds that were not quite "right" & were "off" in their health whether as chicks or adults. It's a real telltale sign that something is wrong ~ usually something internal like cancer or leukosis, etc. Nothing curable in those cases 🙁
Yep, 5 pointed leaves the size of my open hand! I'll see if DH can take a pic. I cleaned up the front yard but not the back yet so hopefully there's some still intact. Have no clue what kind of maple but definitely 5 points unless some other kind of tree has 5 points?
I don't mind pruning & keeping up my own trees since I keep them clean before they lose their leaves. I just don't appreciate picking up other people's giant palm tree leaves ~ or the CalTrans Freeway Maple tree leaves which they have not pruned or trimmed in the 40 yrs I've lived here! You can...
Some day I'd like to see how uneven your Coco's wattles are. I was told by another owner that wattles eventually straighten out but our Dana's never did.
Dana, 4 months old w/ uneven wattle growth
Most of the time we can say our weather is pleasant in SoCalif... but we are close to a mtn range (2 miles) which wreaks havoc weather on our suburb that most of the lower Los Angeles County basin doesn't experience ~ like very violent Santa Ana windstorms, either drought years or heavy rain...
Grrrrr! I'm not a fan of Maple trees... for days I've been sweeping up those gigantic leaves blown in from the freeway trees in the last windstorm! The front & back yards are thick w/ blown in leaves!