The bird in the photo is a Carolina Ren. We have a bird box on the back porch and they nest every other year. When they have young ones it is absolutely incredible how many insects they bring to the nest. This photo was taken after a very hard winter and in the middle of a drought. We fed them maggots and the robins red worms. Those little buggers(birds) were expensive. The photo was taken with a Sony Cyber-shot Pro 1.5 MP set to automatic and spot focus on the head of the bird. ( photo / image / picture from jbest123's Garden )
Jbest...invest in a red wiggler worm box. It doesn't take much to make one. I used recycled rubbermaid medicine tubs from a dairy farm and drilled holes in it. I wanted the worm compost and "fertilizer juice" they produced for my greenhouse/ I can't believe how many worms are now in the bin and I only started it in the spring of last year. I bought the worms (3 tubs) at Walmart from the fishing cooler) and put them into the compost and cardboard and they have reproduced like crazy. Start now and you will have lots of worms to feed them or at least you won't have to buy so many. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Newly set up with fresh compost and cardboard ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) A new resident...and believe me I only bought 2 or 3 containers of worms since they were 3.00 per container and I think there were 20 worms in each container. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) holes on the bottom for drainage, but pretty small so the worms don't fall through ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Todays picture of a healthy motherload of worms. I bottled 3 gallons of liquid earlier this week to use as my fertilizer of choice for the new seedlings this year.
I just may do that but we have moving on our mind at the current time. Depending on where we end up it may be the end of the garden also. :'(
