[va-bird] Re: notes from a NO VA backyard

I spent my Sunday the same way!  In fact, I spent it planting some wildflowers 
in our tiny backyard.  I had just put my hummingbird feeder out on Saturday 
morning, and I was working in the garden right below it.  Lo and behold, I saw 
my first hummingbird of the year in my yard!!!  The carolina wrens also kept me 
company - sitting on the fence above my head to tell me that I was breaking the 
peace with my presence.  I even got to hear the local pileated pecking, and 
when I went out to see if I could see him, I got great looks at him from about 
15 feet away.  Ah, who needs binoculars!  The forests sure were alive.

All of this "yard bird" excitement followed a day at Monticello Park and 
Huntley Meadows - the best highlight there was a Sora (a life bird for me and 
it stood so close that at times the binoculars weren't needed) and some baby 
geese.

Put that perfect weather on top of everything else and you've got on heck of a 
nice Sunday!

-Renee Grebe
 Alexandria, VA


Quoting "Martin, Janet" <Janet_Martin@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On a brilliant Sunday got to spend some time in the back yard just enjoying
> my "home" birds and found that we have a pair of nesting flickers in a tree
> in our back yard.  What a treat.  I know it means the tree isn't in good
> shape but...I can't bear to think of taking it down if our feathered
> friends
> are using it.  I also had the joy of listening to an ovenbird trade calls
> with our towhee's and watch our red bellied woodpecker fend off other males
> from "his" suet feeder.
> 
> All in all a perfect Sunday inside the beltway.
> Cheers, Janet Martin
> No.Springfield
> 
> PS: my sister who lives on a hilltop just south of Leesburg has reported
> she
> has a pair of hooded warblers nesting just below her bed room window.  They
> like to sing around 5 in the morning.  Ah the joys of country living ;-)

 
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