First day of Spring! Tra-la comes to mind. Now maybe it will stop snowing. At least it doesn’t stick around very long.
Spring migrants have been returning to the mountain and in the valley by the river. Mountain Bluebird, Western Bluebird, Spotted Towhee, Western Meadowlark (or as Dan likes to call them, Giant Junco – inside joke), Robin, Violent Green Swallow (they are tough little guys), Say’s Phoebee, Dark-eyed Junco.
And a new yard bird!
Playing that most favorite game shared by birds of every species... Peek-a-boo.
I’ve joined the ranks of bad bird pictures. If they would sit still and stop hiding around behind tree trunks and branches, this would be so much easier.
Any guesses as to what this might be? Dan says, “Oh sure, everybody will know this one!” I’ll give a hint. It’s called a Williamson’s Sapsucker.
Four weeks to Hummingbirds. We bought a 25 pound bag of sugar to use for the hummingbird feeders. It should last most of the summer.
Our new Outback. We decided that 17 years was long enough to keep the old Outback, though we find ourselves missing it. It was a really great car, and hopefully this one will last every bit as long.
What’s really neat about this new Outback and the Subaru Legacy GT we bought a couple of years ago is that the controls on the the inside of the car are the same between the two vehicles. I love the color, Graphite Gray – it changes the way it looks depending on ambient light conditions. This year when we want to go investigating some road way out in the middle of nowhere, we won’t need to worry about breaking down in the most inconvenient way possible. Not that our other Outback ever did that to us, but at 17 years old it was really a matter of time.