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the spring fever yard
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu, GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
- Subject: the spring fever yard
- From: "Cathy Green" <catag57@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:02:15 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Evening all,
Just wanted to share a little my what is happening in my home habitat. I
know some of this I have probably posted before and I am extremely sorry for
the double info, but this time of year is a awesome time of year for me and
I get so I excited I sometimes repeat myself.
My yard is full of spring time blooms, and they really are awesome this
year. I planted some bulbs some time back, and don't remember what they are.
They have never bloomed, always sending up their green stalks, but nary a
flower. One flowered this year which made me want more, (wish I could
remember the darned name) It was a bright orange, shaped like a tulip, a lot
smaller though, and when you stand over it and look into it, it has a bright
yellow interior and the yellow is shaped like a flower but still part of the
orange petal. Awesome flower. I have a flying squirrel nesting in one of
my blue bird boxes, a titmouse that is now busily feeding little chirps
inside another bluebird box, a Carolina Wren has made a nest in a peat moss
bag I had inadvertently left just under the edge of the back deck,
chickadees in a bird house I had bought from Wally mart. And tonight while
inspecting the flower garden, (also today at lunch), I keep hearing the
awesome sound of a hummer, but he hasn't let me see him, (I say him, because
that's generally what comes in first), and he's hanging out at the edge of
the woods, right next to the Columbine patch, which has bloomed this year
more beautiful than it ever has. I still have one blue bird box unoccupied
and one log cabin type bird house that has been the home of many a
chickadee. Their is a robin couple nesting somewhere close by in the
woods, they visit the yard looking for fast food and carry it home. The
daffodils are gone now and the azalias and red dogwood tree are opening up a
little more each day. In the midst of all of this I still have my winter
visitors, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, (usually gone the end of Feb., the lastest
was in the beginning of March) and the Juncos, which is always gone by the
end of Feb. There are a few birds singing through the woods that I am
unfamiliar with. I am planning on getting a audio tape soon to learn all the
birds songs, or at least find the ones that I am hearing.
I haven't been home long enough in the day to really take inventory but
hopefully in the supposedly 80 degree weather the weather man is predicting
for this weekend, I will be out there pulling weeds, watching and counting.
Good Spring Time Birding to all,
Cathy Green
N. Augusta, SC
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