Birdfeeding
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birdfeedingToday 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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Date: 2025-03-10 08:37 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2025-03-10 08:54 pm (UTC)I need to buy more snow crocus. They're tiny and inconspicuous, so I like the giant ones better. But the snow crocuses are, duh, the earliest bloomers. With bees out in freaking March, they need food and can't afford to wait for the bigger flowers. If I want the girls to work for me, then I need to support them. Mitakuye oyasin.