We finally seem to have a new resident red squirrel. Our fluffy, well-fed girl, Maude, disappeared last summer, after reigning over our bird feeders and nearby birch trees for several years, leaving our yard completely squirrel-less. When she disappeared, we scanned the trees for weeks, but were not rewarded by a single fluffy tail orContinue reading “Squirrel Tales”
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Bird Wars
A shotgun blast of 40-50 Pine Siskins shot past my deck this morning, probably just as irritated as me by the sudden onslaught of sleet from a leaden gray sky. Yesterday, the local mob of Siskins had arrived, followed shortly by yet another mob, until there were so many swirling, chattering and bickering birds dartingContinue reading “Bird Wars”