Birdfeeding

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Today is mostly sunny and sweltering again.  I'm hearing thunder to the south but the sky overhead is clear.

I fed the birds.  Lots of activity today -- a flock of house finches, a mourning dove, and out on the lawn a flock of grackles foraging.

I put out water for the birds and watered a few plants.

EDIT 6/17/24 -- It's drizzling a bit!  Yay!  \o/

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I hauled a bag of potting soil down to the empty strip in the prairie garden.  Then I started sowing Towers of Flowers.  I put down a scoop of potting soil, a pinch of seeds, then more soil.  I'll need to water these later, but at least I don't have to water everything else today.  I got 6 hills done so far.

I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder.

It's still hot and steamy out, but less than earlier -- it's in the mid-80s now, down from mid-90s earlier.  During the rain it was mid-70s.  There's a chance of more rain tonight too.  Witch us luck.

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I sowed another 6 hills.  This is about halfway up one side of the strip.  I'm spacing them a foot or so apart to give the sunflowers room to grow.

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I sowed another 6 hills.  

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I finished sowing the rest of the hills up the west edge of the tower strip.

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I watered the new hills.

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I sowed more seeds to fill gaps in the telephone pole garden, then watered them.

EDIT 6/17/24 -- I sowed more seeds to fill gaps in the septic garden, then watered them.

Lots of fireflies are out tonight.  They like warm humid weather.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.