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So. Today is day three of the first heat wave of the season. And we know how whiny I am about the heat. (93 degrees on the coast yesterday! Ridiculous! Who authorized this weather?) Today the high is only supposed to be 83 deg F, so perhaps I will feel less like I am melting into a puddle of goo by the middle of the afternoon. We shall see.
In more exciting news, we have a pair of birds at our backyard birdfeeder! House finches. Not the single most noteworthy bird variety, I know—it’s not like we’re attracting wild parrots or anything—but they are cheery, what with the red belly and the tweeting. (That would be actual tweeting, not Tweeting.) And they poop very little in the yard. Which is a plus.
So far we’ve only got the one pair, and they’re hardly eating anything, but maybe they’ll tell all their birdy friends and we’ll end up with a little bird party in our backyard. Maybe. The kids are pretty stoked to have any birds at all. What about you—are you guys bird people? Or do you have some other kind of backyard visitors—squirrels? lizards? bunnies? the occasional giraffe? Do tell.
We have a lot of birds at our feeder too. Its very exciting. We’ve gotten too many pigeons lately so I will tell them theirs a new restaurant in town and send them your way.
I hate hot weather too, so I’m trying to be sympathetic. But it’s both freezing and pouring here and (this is the kicker): it’s school vacation week. Horrible combination!
We have a mockingbird that nests around our house and wakes everyone up at 4am all summer. The grown ups spend a lot of time cursing the mockingbird. When my daughter first saw the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” she thought it was a how-to manual. (True story.)
How to manual! Ha! Yeah, I would not be okay with a 4am bird wake-up call.
Ugh, vacation and rain. I would send you this weather if I could. We need the rain!
Squirrels. We watch them eat nuts on the roof of the carport just outside our window.
I love the idea of squirrels.
We don’t have any in our neighborhood, but there are some outside the kids’ Sunday School classrooms– they can see them out the window once a week. Better than never, I suppose.
I had to save my garden today from wilting and birds flocked to the puddles and splashed happily – perhaps a bird bath is in your future too!
Maybe! Is there a good way to keep Sadie out of the bird water, do you think? That’s been my difficulty with a bird bath so far.
Could it be made up too high for her?
LOVE backyard birds. One of the most exciting days of the spring is when I realize I can hear birds singing outside.
I love squirrels in theory, but last year our fat, bold squirrels made off with my tomatoes and peppers. It was pretty comical to look out in the yard and see them dragging these huge fruits and veggies along. This year I’ll figure out how to protect my harvest (I was a vegetable gardening n00b last year).
We had an opossum in the carport, but I think he’s gone now.
Maybe he’s migrated to Meagan’s house, to help steal her produce.
I wish we had backyard wildlife, but alas, we have no backyard.
But I bet you have urban wildlife nearby–squirrels in the park? Maybe?