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Blackbird singing in the afternoon
Spring is official but no one has told the farm. More floods. Stoner got to 18.6 feet yesterday morning. Eighteen feet is flood stage. We’ve had 4.65 inches of rain this month, twice the average. Walking on the farm is more like wading, so much standing water. The grass is greening, but nothing is putting out leaves except the bush honeysuckle and the fence roses. Nothing much was stirring yesterday except our redwing blackbird, staking out his territory. He likes to pose dramatically in the very tippy top of the tree, but prefers you to admire him from a distance.
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1. sherry replies at 21st March 2008, 8:38 am :
Max, I envy you and June the bluebirds. I’ve never seen one on the place here. Our feeder runs to titmice, chickadees, cardinals and finches with a downy woodpecker pair and a red-bellied woodpecker pair on the suet. We’ve really enjoyed the nuthatches this year, too. Robins have come back — I should mention that in a post — and we usually have to take our suet down about now because the grackles come back. Out on the place we have the quail and meadowlarks and this redwing. Oh yes, and mockingbirds. Some turkeys, though I haven’t seen any this year yet. A resident redtailed hawk and a couple of hoot owls with the occasional screech owl. But no bluebirds.
Last year was so droughty, haymaking took every inch of mowable pasture so not much in the way of seed left.
2. Tommy replies at 22nd March 2008, 10:14 am :
Man, I wish we had redwing blackbirds and screech owls down here. I guess they don’t like the middle of a city, even one with extensive greenbelts. We don’t have bluebirds, either. Cardinals, yes; mockingbirds, yes; crows, yes; redwing blackbirds and bluebirds, no.
Lucky, the both of yez.
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