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Spring is here. Isn't it great with the flowers blooming, the trees leafing out and the birds singing. Speaking of birds, there is activity in our yard as nesting season gets underway. Arden has several bird houses placed in our yard and the one on the snag in the backyard has always attracted the chickadees & nuthatches. So far both chickadee species and the Red-breasted Nuthatches have been looking. I have witnessed all 6 chasing each other as they vie for possession. Who or if any will use it? |
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A few years ago, I wrote how Arden had an old gate leaning against his shop but the day he went to tear it apart, he found a pair of Bewick's Wrens nesting so he gently put it back and they finished raising their family. So this year, he tried to duplicate the "look" of the gate-shop affect by building a triangular wren house that is about a foot of more long and 6 inches high and he placed it under the deck. |
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It is rather funny looking but the wrens have taken a liken to it and are busy building a nest. Of course, now he gets out of painting under the deck as was on his "hone-do" list. The Orange-crowned Warblers were right on target showing up the last week of March as the Downy Woodpecker seems to have left just as our yard records show. The last week in April is our most warbler species week in the spring. The Townsend's are still here and this is the latest we've had them from their winter stay. |
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The Flickers are also calling and drumming for a mate -- yes drumming!!! At the crack of dawn on the gutter above the bedroom window!!! |
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I was in Spokane in March staying with my sister who also feeds the birds. She has 5 house cats that love to watch the birds that feed not much more than a foot from the window. They sit on the sofa top and watch Pygmy Nuthatches, chickadees, sparrows and Downy Woodpeckers. |
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I took this photo of "Bear" watching a Downy at my sister's house.
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