Birdfeeding

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Today is partly cloudy, muggy, and warm.

I fed the birds.  I've seen house finches, and a pair of cardinals engaged in courting behavior.

I walked around the yard and took pictures.  The first nasturtium is blooming in the barrel garden, the first zinnia in the septic garden, and the black-eyed Susan is close to blooming in the wildflower garden.  I saw a monarch butterfly on my milkweed in the prairie garden.  :D

EDIT 7/8/21 -- I picked half a bag of blackberries.

EDIT 7/8/21 -- I picked half a bag of mulberries.

EDIT 7/8/21 -- I watered half the newly mown space in the prairie garden.  

For years, I've been throwing wildflower seeds from the wildflower garden into the prairie garden in fall when they ripen, and only seen a few signs here and there of flowers resulting.  But mowing strips through the prairie garden has revealed blackberry lilies along both strips and a partridge pea is sprouting in the first one.  So I guess some of them are taking root.  :D

EDIT 7/8/21 -- I watered the rest of the newly mown space.