Birdfeeding

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Today is partly cloudy, muggy, and warm. It rained last night.

I fed the birds. I've seen several house finches. While I was looking at the barrel garden, a male ruby-throated hummingbird showed up to poke around the tulips and daffodils just a few feet from me. Clearly I need to buy more late-blooming red tulips and red-cupped daffodils. He had a hard time finding the nectary on the white daffodils. There are already a few red flowers in the barrel garden, and I've planted a red columbine in the forest garden. I heard a blue jay screaming but didn't see it.

I put the flats of pots outside and watered them.

Celandine poppy is blooming bright yellow in the forest garden. Which reminds me of my observations about mourning dove courtship:

All around the celandine
The male dove chases the female
The male dove thought it was all in fun --
PECK! goes the female!

EDIT 4/29/25 -- I saw a blue jay and a male goldfinch at the forest garden. :D 3q3q3q!!!

EDIT 4/29/25 -- We went out shopping. While I was picking out plants, it started to rain. Fortunately by the time we got home, it was down to a drizzle. I'm unlikely to get any yardening done today though.

I've seen a female cardinal at the fly-through feeder.

EDIT 4/29/25 -- It stopped raining, so I planted tarragon and cilantro in a trough pot on the old picnic table, which finished filling that. I also planted 4 Johnny-jump-ups in a pot alongside the other violas and pansies on the patio.

EDIT 4/29/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I planted a purple Wave petunia in the barrel garden.  I sowed Bee Lawn Mix on some bare patches in the prairie garden.




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