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Birdfeeding
Mar. 10th, 2025 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday is sunny and warm, a beautiful spring day. It's 72°F outside in early March.
I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows and a male house finch.
I put out water for the birds and watered the seed pots.
Lots more snow crocuses are blooming. :D I spotted the first peony sprout under the apricot tree with the fly-through feeder.
EDIT 3/10/25 -- I assembled the rain gauge from Power Plus, which has a long spike on the bottom and a funnel-shaped tube with large numbers (but not inked), and placed it in the barrel garden. Note that the instructions I found online, "Avoid large obstacles that could block precipitation" and "Mount the rain gauge in an area protected from strong wind, if possible," are mutually exclusive. :/ But it will be interesting to see how this works. I plan to put the other one in the septic garden if I can figure out how to attach it to the post for the anemometer. A rain gauge is also called a udometer, pluviometer, ombrometer, or hyetometer. I like pluviometer. :D
EDIT 3/10/25 -- I installed the second rain gauge from First Neighbor Bank in the septic garden. It's not level in that position, so I'll have to tinker with it later when I have more time.
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I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows and a male house finch.
I put out water for the birds and watered the seed pots.
Lots more snow crocuses are blooming. :D I spotted the first peony sprout under the apricot tree with the fly-through feeder.
EDIT 3/10/25 -- I assembled the rain gauge from Power Plus, which has a long spike on the bottom and a funnel-shaped tube with large numbers (but not inked), and placed it in the barrel garden. Note that the instructions I found online, "Avoid large obstacles that could block precipitation" and "Mount the rain gauge in an area protected from strong wind, if possible," are mutually exclusive. :/ But it will be interesting to see how this works. I plan to put the other one in the septic garden if I can figure out how to attach it to the post for the anemometer. A rain gauge is also called a udometer, pluviometer, ombrometer, or hyetometer. I like pluviometer. :D
EDIT 3/10/25 -- I installed the second rain gauge from First Neighbor Bank in the septic garden. It's not level in that position, so I'll have to tinker with it later when I have more time.
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