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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on May 19, 2019 21:51:32 GMT -5
binnylou, it's surprising to read that your mulberries are ripe. But then I assume they're bushes and not trees? I have mulberry trees, despite trying to cut them down b'c they grow so prolifically, but they don't fruit until mid summer.
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Post by James on May 23, 2019 9:03:58 GMT -5
Seen on the birdfeeder this morning: Magpie, Red-winged Blackbird, Eu Dove. The E Sparrows are a constant here, but did not see any on the feeder this morning. There are some Robins about, but they do not come to the feeder.
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Post by binnylou on May 24, 2019 0:50:24 GMT -5
This wasn’t in my garden, but in the neighborhood.
For a couple of days, I have been hearing a loud bird call. The call was one that I should have known right away, but just couldn’t put a name on it. I mentioned it to hubby, but he wasn’t outside at the right time.
This evening, I was in the garden, and I could hear the bird again. We have three neighbors to the north of us, so I figured it was coming from one of those houses. I looked up just in time to see this big bird fly over the garden. Not noisy like a turkey would be. Not silent like an owl would be. Just as I saw that bird I realized that what I’ve been hearing was a peacock. And I’m pretty sure that is the bird that flew over my garden. Probably the female...didn’t see long tail feathers.
I’ll have to call Neighbor Dorothy in the morning. Last year, or maybe the year before, she had two of them sitting on her deck railing. They stayed for a few days, snooped around her farm buildings, and then they were gone. I think she told me that some folks southeast of her were missing those birds.
Do peacocks get the urge to wander?
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Post by desertwoman on May 24, 2019 9:38:02 GMT -5
Do peacocks get the urge to wander? They do! We have a neighbor about 1/4 mile away with peacocks and they have made it to our place and further.
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Post by binnylou on May 26, 2019 22:17:16 GMT -5
When working in the flower garden this afternoon, I noticed that something has been digging at the base of Matilda. Matilda is the name I gave to a Dwarf Alberta Spruce planted in the flower garden. Just as I bent down, I’m eye to eye with a little chipping sparrow sitting on her nest in the spruce tree. She didn’t appear bothered by my presence, so I moved on. They are such cute little birds.
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Post by James on May 29, 2019 17:03:17 GMT -5
Backyard birds today: Pheasant, Robin, Magpie, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Kingbird, E Sparrow, House Finch.
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Post by James on Jun 2, 2019 11:23:30 GMT -5
Stepped out back for a bit. Did not see many birds, but could hear their calls. I got: Robin, W Kingbird, Eu Dove, RWBB, Hawk, I am guessing a Swainson's, and a Magpie. Yes, at times we don't see the birds but are aware of their presence by their song.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 12, 2019 19:45:30 GMT -5
I have some of the highly colored plastic clothes pins, which I leave on the line.
Observed today, a hummingbird checking out every one of them.
So, this afternoon, I put out the hummingbird feeder.
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Post by Mumsey on Jun 13, 2019 17:27:44 GMT -5
Baby Robbins in tree near deck have hatched. Mom and dad have been coming and going all day without feeling threatened by our presence.
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Post by James on Jun 14, 2019 10:29:12 GMT -5
Saw two hummingbirds hitting the feeder. I put some seed on the platform feeder, but nothing much interested.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 14, 2019 11:31:51 GMT -5
The orioles were here, we enjoyed their music and fed them oranges with grape jelly. Then they were gone. Now, I’m hearing them down by the garden where hubby put orange halves on the garden posts. I wonder if all the music we heard when they first arrived was just a mating/bonding thing.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jun 14, 2019 14:54:25 GMT -5
Mumsey, love your new pic! Looks like you lost weight not that you were overweight by any means!
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Post by Mumsey on Jun 14, 2019 17:38:43 GMT -5
lilolpeapicker. Yup 12 lbs last year with my new diet. I was surprised since I wasn’t doing it to lose weight. Whole Foods-plant based but once in a while eat fish/chicken.
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Post by Mumsey on Jun 14, 2019 17:40:17 GMT -5
First goldfinch. Didn’t see any last year. It was chasing a Robbin out of the birdbath and won!
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Jun 14, 2019 19:06:06 GMT -5
The last few times I've gone outside, I've accidentally flushed out a group of birds feeding one day in the area where I just had some trees cut down, and secondly in an area next to the garage. They chirped a bit (perhaps an "escape" call?), then fluttered off. The sound of their wings was similar to that of mourning doves, who I haven't seen here in years. I missed them - I enjoyed their cooing when they used to feed underneath the Colorado Blue Spruce that the former owners planted too close to the house.
This morning I saw a broken Robin's egg blue shell, on the driveway. I think the nest might have been in the tree next door. Fortunately I didn't see any dead babies.
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