Lots of birds

During the drab gray days of winter I hadn’t had very many opportunities to use my new camera, so I decided to fill the feeders and try and capture some of the many birds here lately. We placed these feeders high on the poles, out of the reach of the cats. It didn’t take [...]

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Squirrels

There are so many squirrels around here that, even before I had the cats, it was almost impossible to have any type of decorative bird feeders — the squirrels always tore them down. After buying a very pretty thistle feeder last summer and coming out the next morning and finding it in several pieces on [...]

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Rain

We had flooding rain last week, and received over 5 inches in a two-day period, in addition to the many rainy, drizzling days we have had here since Christmas. This caused the streams to come flooding out of the mountains, and the creek in the secret garden to overflow. This same thing happened last year, [...]

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