Visitors at Christmas Day

She is not often here, but yesterday it seems she enjoyed the warming sunshine on the fence in the backyard

And he don't mind at all, to steal the cat food

And "Me-Me" was just happy to be around us for a little while before she runs away to another house to see if the food is better over there

Harry and Jimmy

Yesterday afternoon, after the big heavy rainfall, I had a new visitor in my garden. I called this Ibis bird "Harry". He was very busy picking at all the fat worms, snails and other "bug-goodies".

But he was not the only one new visitor....

May I introduce you to "Jimmy"......?

Jimmy is new in the environment and is quite different than all the other brown-red chickens we have running around the house. He is white, tall, can barely crow - but he tries! And he has to fight very hard to defend his new territory.

While Harry is gone by now, it seems that Jimmy won the fights against all the other roosters and decided to stay.

Fighting for food...

What the heck is he spying on?

Happy Chicken Family - but "Papa Rooster" is still the boss on the spot!

Mmmmh...kids, come over here to pick - the corn meal is special good today!

He is getting ready to fight for his territory - sneaking in to the scene from behind.....

...and started blowing up his feathers already, then he saw me coming closer with my camera - and he changed his mind! To bad for the photographer - I missed probably some very nice cock fight pictures!

Birthday Guests in my Yard

These two guys were first to wake me up this morning - much too early -
to give me a birthday wish.

And he was wearing his best bow tie - extra dressing for my birthday , I guess.

And she showed me her wonderful new make up - more extras for me.....

And she started to sing me a birthday song: quack, quack, quack..... and then she left!

As you can see I had a lovely group together already this morning that came to congratulate me for my 58th birthday. I am a lucky girl today! :-))