Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Often on a Sunday Peter and I go birding.   Today we spotted a Kestrel sitting on a telephone wire.     .   Kestrels are the smallest falcon and they have very sharp eyesight.   We watched this bird sit quietly looking on the ground for food.   All of a sudden he swooped to the ground and then flew to the top of a telephone pole with an insect.   He stayed there and ate his snack   – probably a grasshopper.   I enjoyed his feather patterns of peach, reds, gray, brown, and yellow mixed with beige.   The Kestrel is the most colorful of all raptors.   He has a pair of vertical black stripes on each side of his face often called a moustache or sideburns.   He is most often seen in deserts and grasslands that extend to alpine meadows I was reminded of the Kestrel we saw in the desert near Picacho Peak AZ.   We noticed a bird making several trips to one of the trunks of a dead palm tree.   Kestrels use other bird’s nests for their homes and this Kestrel probably had babies in the nest.   Qui

Let me introduce you to Willie and Mario, our pet Bearded Dragons!   They are about 2 ½ years old and ‘supposedly’ came from the same family.   I say supposedly because they have different colors and patterns and are so different in temperament.   They were about 1 ½ inches long when we adopted them and are now about 20 inches long.   Bearded Dragons are originally from Australia and live in the arid, rocky, semi-desert regions and dry open woodlands of Australia .   We’ve built a similar aquarium environment with sand, rocks and a water dish.   I also made a long picture of the Australian desert and wrapped it around their aquariums so they would have something resembling "home" to look at!   Peter (my significant other who introduced me to lizards) is designing and building new homes for them.   I’ll post a picture when they are finished!       Mario in his desert aquarium  Willie and his black beard  Willie is usually a relaxed, ‘let come w