Brutal Saturday.

 This cold stuff should be ending soon.  I'm over it.  The playground (garden) is off-limits. When I was teaching and it was the real playground time, anything under 20 windchill meant indoor recess.  That still works here.  It's Brrrrrr weather today.  

So the entertainment window was busy this morning.  Two new birds to the feeder were a pair of Red-winged blackbirds. They were early bird members.  The camera missed them. All the other folks showed up at some point over and over.  I'm sure their little furnaces needed a whole lot of stoking.  

                So yellow already.  Perhaps after spending the winter in Florida he is on his way home. 

                                                Handsome guy not shy among his friends.  

Both Mr. and Mrs. Bluebird were here.  Mrs. really takes charge in this picture. She has just shushed Mr. out of the mealworms.  He is flying off and she is ready to jump on.  All of these bird pictures are a little dark because they were taken in the morning before the sun peeks around the house to the west.  


Michigan called with the news that Jacob got a top rating in the state music competition held this morning.  Jacob is doing a solo concert next Thursday inviting friends to hear selections he has chosen to play.  I hope we can travel north Thursday to hear him.  

Afternoon TV watching included Dr. Pol along with a bunch of basketball.  Today is a lazy day, the only goal in mind is to have no goal.  I am managing to keep the mealworm dish filled. That sounds like a goal that I'm not counting. 

I bundled up, added a hat, and managed to get a new hole guard on this nesting box protecting the hole against predators that would chew it to a huge size.  This year the bluebirds can move in.  No rotten landlord. One more to change,but waiting for better weather.  The third nesting box's hole is so big I think a pileated could use the box.  It got a major chew from something last year not having any guard.  Jared and Kimmy are the original makers of our boxes.  I'd like a few more but I think that's not an option. They are on to other things. 





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  1. Southern JudyMarch 19, 2023 at 5:59 AM

    Lela, glad you and Doug are caring for our feathered friends. The hole guards should do the trick. I have used those in the past and they really work. Yesterday Ally stopped by with her boyfriend, Blake, who I met for the first time. She is on spring break and they are here for a few days and a short trip to Chicago to visit friends. She graduates in May from CU Boulder. I can not believe it but it's happening. It's suppose to warm up about 10 degrees more than yesterday's 29 degree temp. Spring starts Monday at 5:24 p.m. Looking forward to that!

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