Formentera, Spain (2011)

Wisdom Teeth

I got my wisdom teeth removed on Wednesday, not fun. What an experience, lol. Yay for laughing gas! I could slightly feel the surgeon pulling at my teeth but I really didn't care ;) My mouth is still very sore, I can't wait to get back to normal. I did get chipmunk cheeks, which was pretty funny. I took a picture for my little brother, who probably can't wait to make fun of me, but there is no chance that I'll be posting it on here, haha!

I've been home for 5 days now, I've been mostly reading, playing games on the computer and listening to music. And complaining about my sore face. I've been reading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, very good story. Very morbid, sadistic and just "Wow! I can't believe he actually wrote that, that's sick!!" but very good.

I finished the second out of eleven (I think?) books in french not long ago, but since I'd like to start reading epubs instead of paperback I've switched to english, so I started reading the first book again. I'm glad I did since the terminology is very different in both languages.

I've been listening to Hol Baumann's "Human" for the past two days, so good. He reminds me a lot of Trentemoller, which I am madly in love with. Yay for good music! :)

Sean's the one who told me about him, I'm glad he did.

And since I've had so much time on my hands, I'm been watching Les Moomins (Mumintroll in Sweden), in french, of course. Whenever I don't feel good I tend to watch my favorite cartoons/movies I used to love as a kid. Ok maybe not always when I don't feel good, but those are the times when I enjoy it the most :) Moomins are little trolls, the books were published in Finland. It was eventually made into a tv show. So cute (:

Well it's time for soup (ugh), thanks for visiting :)

A light in the dark

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Memento Mori

Walking through a cemetery, this is what I found.

Ibiza, Spain (2011)

I went to Ibiza in July, and not only did I drink very tasty wine, dance until dawn at the legendary Amnesia and get a wicked tan on the beach, I got to absorb the beauty of the island, eat the most amazing sushi and watch the sunset at Cafe Del Mar :) It was the most amazing birthday!

Three lifers

Well we did find two out of four birds I wanted to see, plus a bonus! After driving about three hours we reached John Inmans' house where the red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers and white-winged dove have been spotted for a week now. It looks like the young red-headed has settled in :) The lighting was terrible yesterday so I had to shoot with high ISO, nothing sharp unfortunately, but still very happy I got to see it for about an hour.

The dove showed up for a few minutes but was being very cautious, I was only able to snap one decent shot. This dove is not from this area, AT ALL, so it was very exciting!

The red-bellied didn't show while we were there, but I'm confident that I'll eventually get to see one this winter, there's been many sightings so far. I was very bummed that the prothonotary warbler didn't show and I really hope the little bird made it. It's getting very cold.

A nice bonus : we got to see a few beautiful ring-neck pheasants. I'm very happy with my day :)

It's time for a road trip!

I found out today that we are being invaded! By woodpeckers, that is. There's been many sightings of red-bellied and red-headed woodpeckers (!!!) throughout the southern part of the province, so I'm charging my camera batteries and going on a road trip tomorrow! There's also been a prothonotary warbler and a white-winged dove seen in the same area I'm headed, so I hope I'll get lucky!

Also, I thought I'd mention that my little Queequeg is fine, he doesn't have a tumor. He just has irritated skin around his uropygial gland (or preen gland), which caused it to swell. My little bird was picking so much and broke a few feathers around the gland, which explains the blood. Luckily he didn't start plucking. The vet gave me antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medication for the next 3-4 weeks. Giving him his 'meds' can be a challenge, but I think he's already feeling much better :)

Have a great weekend!

Busy birds

I hardly had any chance to go birdwatching this summer, I guess that I was too busy. Sean and I went to my grandmother's cottage in August for a weekend and I introduced Sean to clam digging! I didn't even think of taking pictures of us digging or of all the clams we caught, but I did snap a few shots of all the busy birds around us! Most of them were so tiny! They were all looking for food and really didn't mind having us watching them. The sandpipers and plovers were so close, I could've reached over and touch them. They were doing the same thing as us; digging for food. Maybe that's why they didn't perceive us as threats :)

Least Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone (lifer)

Semipalmated Plover

Sean did sneak a pic of me in action, haha!

Thanks for visiting :)

My little nugget

Hello :)

To answer your question Janice, I still have my other little bird Queequeg. Here is a picture I took today for you!

I need to bring him to the vet next week, I found a little red and bloody bump on his rump which I suspect is an abscess, cyst or tumor. It's very small, so I'm sure he'll be fine once I have it removed. He's still his happy little self though which is good! I'm trying not to worry too much.

Craver - Echo is only loud when he's mimicking Queequeg and I think that if I didn't have a lovebird, he would never be loud :)

I haven't been hiking much lately but I did snap a few shots when I had the chance.

Little snake we found!

Thanks for visiting :)