Bluebird news

The bluebirds were beginning to build a nest in the new bluebird house this morning. How exciting! I had just bought some mealworms and put some out for them to try and lure them, but looks like they came on their own. Now tonight there's not much activity and there's not much of a nest built, but the mealworms are all gone! We were not here during the day to watch them, so not sure what happened, but hopefully they are still around and will finish what they started. I probably won't get any pictures as the house is a ways from our back deck.

In other birding news, I set some things out to attract the Baltimore Orioles back...a feeder with sugar water and a bowl of grape jelly! That's what they suggested at the bird store! :-) I'll let you know how that goes.


Also bought a suet cage and cake and it will be fun to see what we get on there. Nuthatches and woodpeckers are supposed to like those.

Found a robin's nest in a crabapple tree. I lifted Logan up and he said he saw some blue eggs, so we hope he's learning his colors correctly! I'll have to see if I can get up there and get a picture without knocking the nest down. :-)

Birds of the day

Mrs. Wren

A golden couple

Bird sighting

I just walked outside to throw out the trash and heard the most beautiful songbird...I managed to get a good look at it and found it in the bird book...it's a Brown Thrasher. They are known for their distinctive melodies. I'm going to try and get a recording of his singing.

I got a picture with my 200 mm lens, but you can't see him very well in this picture.




Here's a stock photo showing the Brown Thrasher a lot better!

Celebrate Spring!

Spring is my favorite season, so it was fun to make these yummy cookies to celebrate the slow, stuttering start of our Spring. The boys enjoyed helping to cut them out and mommy had fun putting her limited decorating talents to work. The colors were pretty anyway! :-)

I hope you are enjoying the beginnings of Spring!




Trevin had to try his hand at the decorating, too...in the bowls, that is. The question is, how much got in the bowl and how much in his mouth? :-)

Harbinger of Spring!

Today is a warm one...77 per our local weather station! While the boys were playing outside today, I wandered around picking up sticks and was surprised to see the dogtooth violets up and blooming! There's still a chance a freeze might get them, but at least I got to enjoy them today!