A colony of sparrows is populating the community housing unit atop a flagpole above our back deck. They’ve got it pretty good back there, with plenty of available food (we provide) and loads of handy nesting materials. This unit has 10 apartments and as near… Read More
When I hung the wire cage from the crane, my intention was that it hold a poem (preferably a waterproof one). In the meantime, I’d like to encourage the local downy woodpecker to visit again, so I loaded the cage up with suet. The last… Read More
A downy woodpecker visited our deck today….
Out with the partners at dawn today, the avian symphony was spectacular. No construction. The stinky forklift constantly chugging away next door hadn’t started up yet. No generators. No idling construction vans. Just birds. Lots and lots of birds, creating a magical layers backdrop to… Read More
Lots of robins out in the park early this morning. The early bird, after all, gets the worm.
“All this construction is for the birds,” says local resident.
Today I set up a tripod out on the deck so I could get some steady video of the robins in their nest. A party breaks out when one of the adult robins returns to the nest with some grub.
The baby robins are growing. They want lunch and they want it now. We can watch the action from our deck. The nest is in our huge Norway spruce.
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