Judy has been planting out Beebalm, red and purple salvia, thyme and oregano and we're hoping the hummingbirds and butterflies will be attracted to the brightly coloured flowers.
Our chipmunk is growing bolder too and has found its way up to the seed feeder where it stuffs its face and then rushes off.
Nicholas
Oh, this is such a great amount of pleasure in feeding birds and trying, in some small measure to be stewards of such glorious natural expression. Every moment yields another treasure, another discovery, another smile.
For me, this morning, it was a female downy woodpecker and her chick. At first she was doing an acrobatic balancing act on the feeder, flying off to feed her chick and then flying back. By lunchtime, the chick was alongside her in the protective branches of the wisteria that climbs up the side of the deck.
After lunch, I put a suet square, loaded with nuts, into a wire holder...now both Mama (Pecka) and chick (Woody) are feeding themselves, with the chipmunk (aka Chippy) happily hoovering up any remnants that have dropped into the soil of the large planter below.
We miss our Sooty muchly...but feel our new friends are making a glorious welcome for us!
Judy
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