May 28, 2010 - 1
Sunrise occurred in the backyard this morning at 5:33. Sunset will arrive at 8:22 this evening. Adding just 11 minutes this week, we're up to 14 hours, 49 minutes of seemingly ever increasing sunlight today. And, we're just 24 days away from the beginning of summer!Backyard sightings for last week:
Including northern cardinals, rose-breasted grosbeaks, blue-jays, brown creepers, chipping sparrows, song sparrows, tree sparrows, white-throated sparrows, house finches and goldfinches. Baltimore orioles, American robins, Carolina wrens and Carolina chickadees, catbirds, mockingbirds. Red-bellied and downy woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers, white-breasted nuthatches, tufted titmice, mourning doves. Red-winged blackbirds, crows, grackles, starlings. Bullfrogs, chipmunks, skunks, bunnies, opossums, red and grey squirrels, and still the local pileated woodpecker has been visiting the backyard!
Cool sighting of the week:
As briefly mentioned last week, we had a chickadee emergency recently. Last Thursday whilst outside, doing a few things in the yard, there was a sudden loud and continuous chirping coming from near the old water pump that the chickadees have made their nest in. The male chickadee was flying to and fro around the nest and seemed in a panic.
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May 28, 2010 - Part 2 - Cool Sighting Continued
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