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somehow I wound up writing about birds.
Aug. 31st, 2006 09:14 amErin's here! She's still asleep, actually. If she's not up in about an hour, I'm going grocery shopping without her so I can start the slow cooker and we can go to the beach. I think the beach is do-able today. The skies look clearer.
The news kept saying that the worst of the storm was concentrated east of 75, which I found to be true: the airport is about three feet east of 75, and the weather there was sucktastic. Still not any worse than non-tropical storm weather, but nasty.
So now I'm looking at LJ and watching the doves on the empty feeder--there's a full one right next to it, but they don't fit on it, so they're looking at the empty one, landing on it, landing above it on the pole ... every so often one tries to eat out of the other one and fails. And there's no way to explain to their little dove brains that the reason their feeder is empty is because all 8,000 of them eat there at once. So I need to get birdseed when I'm out.
Erin's mother sent me hummingbird garden seeds, so I'll have to plant those and see what happens. I planted some butterfly garden seeds in a pot just to see what would grow, and I have one sprout thus far.
Doves are boring. I want my blue jays to come in. There are four of them, and they were in and out all day yesterday. I also saw a woodpecker--we have two, now. I bought a birdseed bell and the woodpeckers and the jays fought over it, so I need to get two more (the first one then fell apart and I think a raccoon might have stolen the chunks. Or Scott mowed them). Oh, and there's a hawk in one of the trees a couple blocks away--not a big one, more falcon-sized--but he doesn't seem to be scaring off the other birds, so that's fine. Haven't seen the cardinals lately, and there was a cat out by thier brush pile, so I fear the worst. It's the neighbor's cat, and I've seen it out twice, which is enough for me to want a sling shot. Go be a predator in your own damn yard--stay out of my yard and my vacant lot.
I'd *like* to attract rabbits to the yard, and squirrels. I should look into that. And the infamous burrowing owl burrow. Maybe in the fall, when Mom and I decide to landscape back there.
ETA: Just saw the female cardinal on the full feeder! Yay!
The news kept saying that the worst of the storm was concentrated east of 75, which I found to be true: the airport is about three feet east of 75, and the weather there was sucktastic. Still not any worse than non-tropical storm weather, but nasty.
So now I'm looking at LJ and watching the doves on the empty feeder--there's a full one right next to it, but they don't fit on it, so they're looking at the empty one, landing on it, landing above it on the pole ... every so often one tries to eat out of the other one and fails. And there's no way to explain to their little dove brains that the reason their feeder is empty is because all 8,000 of them eat there at once. So I need to get birdseed when I'm out.
Erin's mother sent me hummingbird garden seeds, so I'll have to plant those and see what happens. I planted some butterfly garden seeds in a pot just to see what would grow, and I have one sprout thus far.
Doves are boring. I want my blue jays to come in. There are four of them, and they were in and out all day yesterday. I also saw a woodpecker--we have two, now. I bought a birdseed bell and the woodpeckers and the jays fought over it, so I need to get two more (the first one then fell apart and I think a raccoon might have stolen the chunks. Or Scott mowed them). Oh, and there's a hawk in one of the trees a couple blocks away--not a big one, more falcon-sized--but he doesn't seem to be scaring off the other birds, so that's fine. Haven't seen the cardinals lately, and there was a cat out by thier brush pile, so I fear the worst. It's the neighbor's cat, and I've seen it out twice, which is enough for me to want a sling shot. Go be a predator in your own damn yard--stay out of my yard and my vacant lot.
I'd *like* to attract rabbits to the yard, and squirrels. I should look into that. And the infamous burrowing owl burrow. Maybe in the fall, when Mom and I decide to landscape back there.
ETA: Just saw the female cardinal on the full feeder! Yay!
