It is now in mid -March and as usual, our weather is warm one day and cold on the next. Although they were short-lived, the latest 70-degree temperatures have brought many plants into germination.
One day the halbera, not local plants, which were often referred to as fasting roses, were without buds, but the next day purple buds were everywhere. I planted these exotics from Europe and Asia years ago because they flourished here in the cold. At that time I had not yet recognized how important local species – not exotic – are.
Another non -native kind, crying willow trees, are now really brought to life. Their sleeping vertical branches are yellow in the sun and soon they will be covered with greenish catkins and leaves. This China, who comes from China, has naturalized on the east coast that most people believe that it is a native species.
However, silver anxes are located in the same parts of the east coast and are already covered with flowers. Your red buds quickly become yellowish green in late winter or early spring before your leaves appear. Over the years I have seen their flowers covered with snow.
Although the weather has warmed up and Daffodil shootings are everywhere, most winter birds are still there and will be a while. If it's warm, you won't see many of you at FEEDER.
What David recently seen in a Suet feeder in the front yard was a piletrical woodpecker. But this large woodpecker with a crow's size with a red comb will not leave like the winter types when spring arrives. Pileated spokes are not migrants. Since we built our home in 1978, they are nesting in our Hillside Woodlot, but rarely you visit a Suet feeder.
At this time of year, before it is certain to plant yearbooks, perennials or most vegetables in gardens, spring -raptor counts will take place all over the country. And in addition to bare and golden eagles, a kind of HAWK observer always hope to see.
Like red-tailed falcons, Rough legs are buteos, and from afar they look a lot the same. However, the differences are obvious nearby, and I was grateful that I had recently seen a hunt on the floor for paths or the other little prey in our lower fields.
As I was sitting in the car and watching the rough legs, a text came through on my iPhone. I know that our smartphones are indispensable these days, but I often ignore texts until I feel like reading them. When I read that an hour later, I was glad that I was doing it.
I am not sure how or why he found this article from eight years ago, but a long -time bird lover, Steve, sent me a photo of falcons who were sitting in a plane. According to the article, falcons are worshiped as status symbols in the Middle East. Your owners often bring them on aircraft trips and they have their own passes.
Like many people, I was sometimes irritated by things near passengers on flights. But I have never sat next to a falcon and I don't know how I would react to you next to me.
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