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

Rhubard Strawberry pie

Mmmmmmm...yum! Was this ever good! Can't wait until we can pick some of our own rhubarb! It didn't do much this year.

More birds!

We've spotted some Baltimore Orioles around our place...they're such a bright spot of orange...and here is the female. She was enjoying the blossoms on this honeysuckle.

Here is a lovely Yellow Warbler. I believe it is either a female or a young warbler. The male has more noticeable brown streaks on his chest. She hopped up and down the branches of the tree...they feed on insects on the leaves.

And the other day I caught the Momma wren going into the wren house we put up (there is a nest of sticks in it!). House is occupied! And now we get to hear the beautiful singing! It's hanging in a tree just right off our deck.

Mr. Bluebird sitting on our gutter the other day.

A finch on our feeder...still trying to figure out if it's a Purple Finch or House Finch. I want to catch a Goldfinch on the feeder, too. They are SO bright!

Asparagus harvest!

No pictures to show, but we had our first asparagus meal today. It was yummy! It's amazing the difference between store-bought and homegrown! As Corey put it, "This tastes buttery!" I had to pick several days to get enough, it's rather thick (though still tender), and it has bugs now, but we sure enjoyed what we got. I will have to get out the bug dust and there's always next year! :-)

Happy gardening!

Bird of the Day!

I'm going to have to turn this into a birding blog. :-)

Waiting for a wren... Last year we had a pair and they sang so prettily! I saw a wren just this morning on the deck, so hopefully they find this house!

Mr. Bluebird today...he posed for me very nicely for quite some time while I stood on our back deck. Hope he likes the mealworms I put out for him...enough to occupy the nearby house.

This day is for the birds!

Can you believe it...another really neat bird sighting! At first I thought this was an eagle (we have seen them in the area), but I think it's just a red-tailed hawk. It was still neat to watch. It perched in a neighbor's tree for a while and then flew off across our place. Thanks again to my 200 mm lens, I could get a decent picture and then I cropped it way in to get the pics you see below. What fun!