Birdfeeding

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is mostly cloudy, breezy, and mild.

I fed the birds.  Today I've seen sparrows and doves.  I saw an eastern towhee with mate, and then two more males.  This is odd because they're supposed to be pretty territorial, but they weren't even squabbling as much as the sparrows.  They were just all scratching around for seeds under the hopper feeder.  Towhees like brushy yards with a layer of litter on the ground where they can forage, so this is a good place for them.  :D 

I dug up more weeds under the forest garden.  I'm a little more than halfway around it now.  Progress.  I disturbed a lot of ladybugs.  It's warm enough for them to start crawling around.  Here we have lots of leaf litter, bark mulch, loose bark, and other places they love to hide, so we have a LOT of ladybugs.  \o/

Earlier I walked around the yard taking pictures.  Given the mostly cloudy sky, I'm not sure how well they turned out.

EDIT 3/22/21: I went back out and dug up more weeds.

EDIT 3/22/21: I went back out and dug up more weeds.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Iceland is having a showy volcanic eruption. Yay, science!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O46nVKTdpBc

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's really cool. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Wow!

[(Anonymous)]

You're welcome.

[filkferengi]

Towhees were the first bird we learned at our nature preserve. Since they say per-WEET, we call them Perweet Pete, or Petes for short. Last year, we saw Mr. & Mrs. Pete & Junior, all rocking the underbrush. [Our nomenclature is so much better than the official version. Before we knew what they were, we called bullfrogs "rubberband frogs." So much more accurate, don't you think? ;) ]