Sunshine

What a wonderful thing it is to see the sun. After what seemed like eons of cloudy, rainy days, the sun is shining down upon us. Hoorah!

It's 76 outside. Quite unusual for the end of October. I do have halloween candy ready to hand out for trick-or-treaters on Sunday. As long as I can keep my paws out of it, I'll be fine. There will be some left, one of the bags has some peanut butter cups in it, and I don't care for those.

I saw a Junco outside earlier this week. It must mean that winter is near. That's hard to come to grips with since it's 76 and sunny now. Mother Nature does have her ways.....

Clean bird feeders

Yesterday I cleaned all the bird feeders. They really needed it. Just a few minutes after I had hung them back outside I had lots of birds. This morning has been a flurry of activity. The cruddy old feeders must have been deterring the little birds. Today I've seen more birds than I've seen over the last few weeks combined!

Common Redpoll

Ahhh, with fall colors come the migrating birds. So, I got to see a new one at my feeder this morning. I'm pretty sure it's a Common Redpoll, based on it's pinkish-red breast. I now have the bird books at the ready, so the next glimpse should get positive confirmation.

I'm back

Ok. I haven't posted since before I went to Holland to see my sister. I had a great time! Pictures will be available shortly (this morning) from my web page.

Just saw a female downey woodpecker at the suet. I've planted lots of tulips this year (brought back from Holland, of course), and lots of iris from my sister in law.

Next big task is to dig up my flower bed and replant all the bulbs. The flowers haven't been doing well this year, (or last year for that matter), and probably need to be cleaned out from extra bulbs.

Happy Saturday everyone.

Not much new to report

Just a quick note here. Fall seems to be coming early. Some of the trees have started to turn colors, and drop their leaves.

It seems that some of our Goldfinches have fledged. I saw a male (the dad) and 4 or 5 little goldfinches who didn't seem to quite have the knack of the feeder. The little ones didn't seem to fly away when I went to the deck. This made "dad" very agitated. He wanted to leave, but wasn't going to leave the little ones.