New birdfeeders

[darkcedars]

I have been having so much fun feeding the birds that my dad made a birdfeeder for me. Piece of barn board from the family farm (we haven't used the actual barn in decades now).  I can see this from the living room window, is between the lilac and forsythia. 



And I was having trouble with the starlings eating all the suet, so I asked my husband to 3D print a little house, this should let the woodpeckers have a chance (feeding from below).  he took the opportunity to use up the gold filament that he hates. 

Birdfeeding

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is cloudy and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows, two mourning doves, a starling, and a fox squirrel.

The first daffodils are open. My bluebells are sprouting in the forest garden. :D

I met a Trumpeter Swan today!

[julian]

Trumpeter Swans are rare-ish in my area, and mostly we get Mute Swans, who have red/orange beaks and are apparently more flexible with their necks? Or anyway, they do more twisting around than Trumpeters do.

But, there's a bunch up in Northbridge MA lately, so I went to try and find them.

I found (at least) one of them, hurrah.