[Homestead] Garden on the mind

Leslie cayadopi at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 20 23:06:58 EDT 2009


Really !!  Maybe I'll plant more of those then.......... give the birds something to do besides flying up to my windows and banging their beaks on them looking for treats !
 
Somehow the Orioles have figured out that I'm the one that fills the hummingbird feeders and the minute they are empty, come right to the window where I sit most of the time and bang like crazy until I do a refill !!!
 
The Orioles will be here in about 2 weeks from what I remember from last years.  
 
The Hummers have arrived, and buzzed me all day today, since I was wearing a red shirt.  Many different kinds.  The first ones, I call the Penguins,,, since they have a black head, white ring around their neck, dark gray/green back and wings, and a light grey chest......... little tuxedos............. LOL.  In a few more months there will be nearly a dozen different kinds,,,,,,,,,, and so many they line up like incoming planes to a runway at rush hour to the 6 large feeders..... they are a riot.  But when the Orioles are around they steal all the hummers juice....
 
For the past couple of weeks there have been thousands of birds on the property.  I raked up about 2 acres of thorny weeds, and a lot of tiny seeds fell out.... they've been having a blast eating the seeds, and I thank them for that.  8 more acres of thorn weeds..... some time later though.
 


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--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Walton <waltonrp at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden on the mind
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 10:40 PM

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Whaaaaa..... I suppose that means I;ll have to put some kind of cloth over
> the flowers....
>


Probably not. I don't have a big problem with birds on the big sunflowers
(big seeds), they like the small seeded ornamental sunflowers. Some of the
ornamentals have tiny, tiny seeds. Birds tear those ones up. I like to watch
the show.

Rob - Va
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