Our feeders are set back up, now we just need birds
This is what three weeks of travel can do to your feeding station:
And this is what a lawn mower can do:
Initially, I wanted to weed the garden and preserve as much of what is supposed to be there as possible. As we got started, though, we noticed that there really was not much to salvage. The sunflowers had been picked pretty clean and everything else was weeds. There were some black-eyed Susans against the house, but it was too much easier to mow over everything than try to spare only a few plants.
So now my feeders are once again visible from the window of our sun room and are no longer a risk to the birds. Since it has been about three weeks since our feeders have been filled, I took my own advice about setting up. All except the part about being patient. I must have checked the feeders a dozen times, hoping one of the neighbor’s birds would notice that the cafeteria is open again.
The garden is a little bare. But I recently read that now is actually a good time to plant many types of flowers which bloom in the fall, so we may end up with some color, yet.
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September 9th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Wow! You all really made some great headway!
September 9th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I can’t believe we are already getting birds, especially since we took down all the cover. I guess they still have the lilac bush and the evergreen, but they seemed to like the weeds, too. At least when there were still seeds on them!
February 1st, 2008 at 1:44 am
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