Yesterday I decided to start building a proper bird feeding station over by the lilacs after months of having this little window box feeder. It works pretty well and both feeds the sparrows, finches and chickadees and provides me with hours of entertainment each day! It's just that there are too many birds coming to …
I almost forgot! I had a few photos I uploaded and didn't use this week so instead of a Saturday Spillover post, I'm making this one a Sunday Spillover. 🙂 I got a few shots of the starlings last week that *almost* made me kind of like them. They're not bad looking birds, really, but …
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Well yesterday the temperature rose but not enough to melt all the snow, thankfully. Last night, just as it dropped down again and twilight was settling over the valley, I happened to look out the kitchen window and saw what I thought was a small flock of quail fly into the snow-covered back field. They …
We are supposed to get up to 40F today (!) with rain showers and there's no snow in the forecast for the foreseeable future, which means all this lovely snow we've had here since before Christmas is going to melt away leaving slush, mud and, if it freezes overnight, ice. Ugh. Not exactly ideal conditions …
The sunsets have been incredibly beautiful again the last week or so, and while it would be better if there were huge trumpeter swans flying across them like before, I'm still happy to witness these "sky paintings" as they unfold before my eyes each evening. I noticed that this little airplane has been doing multiple …
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