It's Full of Surprise!
May. 16th, 2020 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonGot the rest of the container tomatoes planted, along with bell peppers (also container), plus cabbages (in the ground). There's a really, really, basic selection of vegetable starts at the stores. Nothing like the varieties that were available last year.
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This is my new, temporary friend, Cheepy McSparrowface. She's been out of the nestbox (Box B) for about five minutes at this point, and is a bit overwhelmed by it all. She let me walk up to her and pick her up, then perched on my hand for a bit, before deciding that perhaps that wasn't a wise course of action. I left her in the Lilac bush with her sibs.
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Here you can see how big she is. Even for a House Sparrow, she's a bit petit. A big grown-up girl with all of her feathers out of the sheathes, though.
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Today at the grocery store, there was a Swallow (a Barn Swallow?) who had a nest mounted on some small fixture about two feet above, and a foot or so to the right of the entrance. She was going about her business tending a nest full of chicks, and just completely ignoring the humans passing below her. I think, quite honestly, of everyone there, I was the only one who noticed. People are just oblivious sometimes.
At the garden store, and at the gas station, there were House Sparrows tending nests built in hollow steel canopy members. The babies were just cheeping up a storm, with the adults running back and forth with food. They're all around us!
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This is my new, temporary friend, Cheepy McSparrowface. She's been out of the nestbox (Box B) for about five minutes at this point, and is a bit overwhelmed by it all. She let me walk up to her and pick her up, then perched on my hand for a bit, before deciding that perhaps that wasn't a wise course of action. I left her in the Lilac bush with her sibs.
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Here you can see how big she is. Even for a House Sparrow, she's a bit petit. A big grown-up girl with all of her feathers out of the sheathes, though.
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Today at the grocery store, there was a Swallow (a Barn Swallow?) who had a nest mounted on some small fixture about two feet above, and a foot or so to the right of the entrance. She was going about her business tending a nest full of chicks, and just completely ignoring the humans passing below her. I think, quite honestly, of everyone there, I was the only one who noticed. People are just oblivious sometimes.
At the garden store, and at the gas station, there were House Sparrows tending nests built in hollow steel canopy members. The babies were just cheeping up a storm, with the adults running back and forth with food. They're all around us!
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Date: 2020-05-17 12:29 pm (UTC)Lucky you, having more than one species to choose from. That's our only species over here. I haven't actually seen any this year yet, though they will have returned some weeks ago now. Mind you, they're rarely in these parts anyway. House martins and swifts are our main points of the progression of spring.