dragonflies. and that was a lynx! the squirrel visits at plantings. it enjoyed some half potatoes, quinoa is all gone. a couple of what seemed to be brewer's blackbirds, very beautiful. they stayed for a while. squirrel: sunflowers are up, all over. elements: savory too. skunks and a juvenile porcupine, deer and coyotes. and mushrooms!
Californias, they're back. About a week now. (sounds) how d'ya like that. hibiscus in bloom is in the Malvaceae family, like hollyhock.
haven't always been a bird watcher. still am not, in a binocular kind of deliberate way. yet when they appear in astounding visions, like noisy goose caravans, or (not seen this one before!) northern flicker, what a spectacle. just watched. there used to be a hairy woodpecker that caught bugs tap tap tap always, at nap times.
this year's sunflower. shady: it probably won't even open. which led me to think that it was birds. (not squirrels.) at any rate, a long spindly surprise. so, in the tree. last year: under an eave in a sunny spot. and what a great year for birds it's been. a massive snowy owl. a six foot wingspan in a winter slomo dream, a funky yellow warbler in yellow autumn leaves. the patch of cedar waxwings. an awesome crow, took its HUGE dry bread chunk ..to a roadside puddle. the big awkward owlets.
last year's surprise sunflower. what the birds drop, what the squirrels plant
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