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Index of Subjects the computer has been down since last Thursday and in the shop for a few days. There has been a lot of chasing, posing and posturing about the property. Grackles are still here in hordes, although I do think there are some moving away now. Robins have nested all over the place picking up worms and grubs and dropping off their packages of waste. I think they target my car!!. Swallows are all confused again this year. We went with one house after all the fighting over the other two last year. We have had a couple (maybe different couples?) take things into the house, pulling stuff out of the house. Chickadees decided they liked the house only to be chased away by a woodpecker then the swallows came back and seemed all set. Now, this am, there are 7 out there circling the house and yard. The blackflies have hit and are hitting hard. About 9:45 they started as I walked the yard with our realtor, identifying nesting sites and plants various. Things are coming so quickly. The Oriental poppies will bloom next week if we have a full day of sun. Apple tree is opening as I write this. Rhubarb is sending up flower/seed stalks already and I am pushed to keep them cut off. I see an occasional Blue Jay but not that many. We still have Mourning Doves, Chickadees, Juncos, American Goldfinches, Purple Finches, male and female, Sparrows: song, white throats (more then ever before) White-crowned (3) Chipping (2) and several I am not sure of their id.. One Chipping was gathering bits of long bits of thin dry grass, and disappearing under the ground level boughs of the fir outside the livingroom window, only to have a swallow swoop down and liberate it. The swallows then decided to park their grass on the flag pole top and the wind blew it all away. This past Saturday we had at least two hummingbirds neither of which visited the feeders or decided to stay. I haven't ever had a year when we didn't have site being advertised all over the property by now, well in twenty years. The location I saw them was where we used to put a feeder but due to the structure being quite rotten and needing to be taken down, no feeder is there now. Other feeders are in locations similar to the yearly ones. I had a catbird sheltering here during the thunderstorms Sat.. It was the first I have seen in awhile. Brown headed cowbird male was here, no female at this time. Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, a Northern Flicker, and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker all in the past couple days. There are a few warblers moving about the trees. I don't know them as well as I should. Starling numbers are down and I hope they stay that way. The Red-winged blackbirds are plentiful. There are males females and undecideds. Oh and I have seen what I am sure is a small brown bat. Three separate events different days......Only thing is it is moving about in the late afternoon, well before dusk. Marg Millard, White Point, Queens http://MargMillard.caD
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