Backyard tip of the week: Are you tired of buying hardy mums each year? Want to save yours for next year? Try freeing them from the pots the store sold them in and planting them in your garden or yard. The ground is still warm enough this time of year and the winter dormancy will give the roots a chance to take hold. Come next fall, you won't have to buy mums again, as yours will be as hardy as ever right in your own yard. Try it, you're sure to love it!
Backyard sightings for last week: Including northern cardinals, dark-eyed juncos, blue-birds, and white-throated sparrows. Carolina wrens, house wrens, eastern goldfinches, house finches. Red-bellied and downy woodpeckers, white-breasted nuthatches, the tufted titmice, black-capped chickadees, blue-jays, mourning doves, American crows, a red squirrel, some grey squirrels, a couple of different skunks, some deer, still some chipmunks, and a few crickets, too.
Cool sightings of the week: This week's cool sighting happened on the job site. Out in the field, specifically, next to the trench at the WDVR new antenna job site! Tuesday afternoon, while working in the trenches I saw a bit of avian commotion in the field and stopped for a moment to see what was going on. At first glance I saw streaks of blue moving about very quickly and found that they were bluebirds! I'd have thought they would have migrated by now. I'm not sure if bluebirds do migrate, but I hadn't seen them in the past week or so while working on the job and now there were at least a dozen of the friendly little birds flying about and landing on the many posts for the silt fence. The bluebird's ariel frolicking lifted my spirits and, suddenly, the job at hand seemed easier because of a bit of good bluebird karma. It was very cool!
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