Saw my first indigo bunting of the year in my yard this morning. And the first green heron of the year down by the creek.
I like the native ones, hate and despise the non-native invasive noxious ones. As I said in the other thread, I propagate and plant native ones, and kill every bull, milk, or musk thistle I see. If you've ever seen what an infestation of bull thistle can do to a piece of good farmland, it's not pretty.6:09 sitting on the porch in the dark enjoying the peace and quiet and just now a chuck-will's- widow started sounding off! Don't get to hear them much here in town. My wife asks: "Why do you sit out there in the dark like that?"
I was trying to explain to her the other day my effection for native plants in the landscape rather than non-native, artifical "landscape" plants. My final point was Aldo Leopold's opening line to Sand County Almanac - "There are some who can live without wild things..." .
Man what a snakey Spring I'm having! Yesterday I saw two black snakes (racers) not 15 minutes apart on two different roads.
Anybody following the posts on thistle either in the trad archery thread or the gradening thread? How you feel about thistle? I like it.
I've never seen one of those in my life. Always wanted to.Saw the first Shrike of the year, aka Butcher Bird today, he or she grabbing insects as I am bushhogging. That's one of my favorites. All the Bluebirds and Mockingbirds joining the party.
Send those Mississippi kites down here for a fly over! I'm gettin' a crick in my neck staring up!No shrikes yet, but the chucks, kingbirds, indigo buntings, blue grosbeaks, orchard orioles, summer tanagers, great crested flycatchers, cowbirds, white ibis, Mississippi kites, rain crows, and hummingbirds have returned. My fig tree is gonna have a bumper crop this year, as well as one of my Meyer`s lemon trees.
Look prehistoric don't they?Last evening was treated to the sight of a lone wood stork gliding toward his roost area. Neighbor has a nice wooded pond at the back of his farm where they roost from time to time.