wow, amazing.
I have seen one on catnip (in summer)
Mockingbirds have been going nuts around here with long choruses!
The birds are getting ready for spring!
I imagine it was happy to find something in bloom! There was probably nice seasonally warm weather in their winter habitat, then they got up here to find very little in bloom due to our late and cool spring.
I have seen the Hummers at my BH, too.
Roseate Spoonbills
Speaking of Bleeding hears----does anyone have a decent start of one
they could share??? I have lost all mine........I like the red ones....
I have seeds...maybe I should seed them....but I know they self-seed like
crazy--so a start would not be hard to find.
Thanks, Gita
I can give you some, Gita
Thanks, sally---
Tammy will dig up a big bunch of the Micanthus this Friday
and I will drop it off when I get to your place.
G.
Baby robins hatched 2 days ago in the nest on our front porch... yesterday evening we could see them stretching up big heads on little necks, mouths gaping, when Mrs. R. returned with a worm.
How sweet!!
As much as we don't like it, all of this rain makes it a little easier for birds to find worms.
A catbird was "meowing" at me today as I was digging in the garden; I took that to mean "hurry up so I can get the worms you're unearthing"! I dropped some worms on the surface for it.
Not a bird, but other critters have been included on this thread. As I drove up our road today I noticed a white animal in the road ahead. I thought it might be a white bird of some type, but as I drew near it turned out to be a squirrel. I've seen plenty of gray, some black, and in the midwest, red, but never white. Guess it was an albino, but I didn't get a look at its eyes to see if they were pink. You never know what you might encounter.
There's a white squirrel in my neighborhood. I'm surprised it hasn't been caught by the birds of prey.
Maybe to color confuses them and they mistake it for a cat.
LOL!
How interesting!
I didn't know there was such a thing!
Greenthumb, no worries. Like I said at the top, this thread isn't just for the birds; any critter chatter is fine!
Funny i have this thread open right now. A barred owl just started hooting in the yard behind ours!
I cleverly lured it here with my plentiful vole supply.
Ahhh, it's so sweet of you to raise voles for the owls! ha ha
Can you bring some voles to the swap so the rest of us can employ your lure?
I knew I have moles and voles in my yard but was surprised as I am moving plants and stepping stones to see their tunnels and holes. I purchased one of the devices Ric had talked That goes into the ground and sends out audio waves that chase them off. Have not tried it yet. I don't really mind the moles, at least they eat grubs but voles have eaten all my hostas.
Rotten critters. I have those vole tunnels all through the few grassy parts of the yard. It looks awful - just one more thing to repair ughhh.. So far they have actually left the garden parts alone. Probably just a matter of time...
A female cardinal flew into our storm door today as Pat was opening it. The bird was stunned even though it did not hit head first. Pat picked it up, put it in a plastic dish, and placed it in a rhodo out of the reach of our cat Boris. Shortly after her photo op she flew away. (the bird, not Pat)
That looks like the kind of pan Marianne uses for baking a ham.
I think Roast Cardinal pairs nicely with a fresh young unoaked Murray River valley Chardonnay.
aw poor sweet Cardinal-lady.
Mark saw a bluebird in our yard today. First ever!
All kinds of lovely bird songs and tweets all day while I was messing around in the yard. such a wonderful day.
Yes, she was certainly stunned and hardly moving at first. I put her in a huge flower pot where she wouldn't fall out, but then Boris appeared. The Chinese takeout container seemed a good temporary resting spot, and I was so glad she was able to fly off.
We have a friend that raises hundreds of hostas. He checks some of the local $ stores and such till he finds one that has small metal mesh trash cans. Then he buys a case or two and plants his hostas in them. He gets 2-3 years out of them and usually has to divide them and replants them in a new one.
I'm going to try and bother a ground hog out of the yard using the mole chasers around his den, otherwise it will be acute lead poisoning.
What an adorable picture, Pat!
I thought I recognized that as a Chinese take-out container! Those things come in handy.
Yay Pat for rescuing it; I'm glad it recovered.
Nice that you have a bluebird, Sally! Did Mark get a good enough look to see whether it was a male or a female?
My bluebirds have babies now; I can hear them. I was near the nest box today and they were not happy with me.
My catbird is so funny! It was mewing at me again today while I was potting up stuff, hoping that I would give it worms. I finally turned over some dirt for it so it would shut up! It worked.
Ric, good luck with your groundhog; I hope it leaves.
Muddy--
I am amazed that you have birds that come so close to you.
When I am outside--most of them scatter. If i sit still--some will dart
back to the feeder(s) and grab a sunflower seed.
I don't think I have seen a Mockingbird yet--Last summer was the first time in years!
Catbirds? Not sure...I know in years past hey were nesting in my big,
old Burning bushes at the end of my patio. Boy! They are mouthy!
G.
I sat on my deck for about 20 minutes this morning trying to get the chipmunk used to me, he (she?) is so cute.
They are cute. The ones in my yard are always running lately; they grab food and dash back to their homes.
Gita, I spend as much of my spare time as possible in my back yard, and I think the birds have learned that they have to trust me if they want to eat!
Those metal trash cans are a great idea, and much easier than the hardware cloth cylinders I made one year to protect some special new hostas for my MIL.
I hope Sally's bluebird hangs around!
I was away Saturday through last night, and I was just amazed at how huge those baby robins (on the front porch) are now! You forget how quickly they grow. There are just 3 of them, and that's a good thing, because as it is they have to rest their heads on the edge of the nest... there just isn't enough room inside anymore. LOL
Good rescue, Pat! I put stunned birds in a little cardboard box with a soft towel, figuring they might recover better and feel safer in the dark... sometimes it takes an hour. But any safe (and cat-free) place is good! We've had almost no collisions with the sliding glass door since I put up a couple of stick-ons that look clear to me but UV-bright to the birds. Joyanna often supplements them with snowflakes or other seasonal items LOL.
I took a quick peek at the baby bluebirds today while the parents were out getting food. They're so cute with their little mouths wide open!
Time for a new thread! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1395087/