Birdfeeding

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is cloudy and mild with variable wind.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a flock of sparrows and house finches, several brown-headed cowbirds, a grackle, a brown thrasher, a male cardinal, a robin, and a wren.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I got the 5 'Caroline' raspberry plants into the ground, along the south edge of the ritual meadow.  I still have a lot to finish that project, though.

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I spread topsoil around the new raspberries, covered them with jugs, and labeled them.

Columbine has flower buds in the rain garden.  :D

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I spread mulch around the new raspberries.  This concludes the Burpee's order.

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I planted 3 red plum seeds in pots on the old picnic table.

Farmers are plowing their fields.  Immediately west of us, someone is trying to burn off the mats of dead stems that float to the edges of the floodles, which is filling the yard with thick clouds of choking smoke.  >_<  Now is not a good time for that because it is still quite damp, hence the copious smoke.  There's a reason I refer to our neighbor as Bubba Fail the Farmer.

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I planted 25 crocosmia around the barrel garden.

The smoke has largely cleared away.

EDIT 4/14/25 -- I transplanted more bergamot from the telephone pole garden to the street side of the savanna hedge.

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