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Got out with the binoculars this weekend again. Wild violet, spring beauty, and skunk cabbage are up. Saw a mixed winter flock (chickadee, titmouse, nuthatch, Carolina wren, song sparrows, white-throated sparrows, etc.) plus robins, red-bellied woodpeckers, flickers, etc. I heard the first phoebe of the year! Rounded out the walk with a pair of belted kingfishers.
Lots and lots of cowbirds, male and female, at my feeders the last few days. Boy, do they love to talk. My husband and I joke that since they are parasitic nesters, they don't have anything else to do all day except coffee klatsch around the feeders. LOL
Yesterday: painted turtles, spring peepers, common winter resident birds + double crested cormorants, great blue heron, cooper's hawk, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, song sparrows, red-winged blackbirds.
Some highlights from today: green frog, carpenter frog, spotted turtle, red-bellied snake. Birds included black vulture, bald eagle, two red-tailed hawks, Eastern phoebe, fish crow, golden-crowned kinglet, hermit thrush, pine warbler, and brown-headed cowbird.
The small bullfrogs have appeared again, as have the leopard frogs. They gather this time of year around the dragonfly watergarden. I am surprised so many of the tadpoles escape the dragonfly nymphs.
The nymphs themselves are hard to spot. Soon I will buy a batch of small minnows for the nymphs to feed on, and in a few more weeks I will be rewarded by a plethora of dragonflies. I counted 7 different species last year. They vacuum mosquitoes out of the air for us; makes sitting outside in Mississippi very pleasant.
I reading something on the computer, when I felt something sort of tickle my left wrist. I shook my wrist and a jumping spider hopped onto my kitchen floor! He must have parachuted down from the ceiling (they do that a lot in my house) and landed on my wrist instead of the table. I got out the Spider Retrieval Unit (a playing card and an upside-down plastic bathroom cup), caught the little guy and opened the back door. When I released him, he spun some silk and slowly landed on my top stair. So cool.
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