Smith Family Weblog

Mom and Dave have a number of deer that visit their yard in the evening. I managed to catch one through their spotting scope.

I planted several flowers before Ava’s birthday, but they succumbed to a late frost. I finally managed to plant a few new things this weekend, thanks to Gramma Great, who provided many new pots, and to Ava, who helped quite a bit!

In the last two weeks we had yellow warblers, Nashville warblers, and yellow-rumped warblers traveling through and a few more I couldn’t identify. A rose-breasted grosbeak arrived yesterday at the feeders and was here tonight. Two house wrens have occupied our wren house recently. We’ve had a few brown thrashers near our garden.

Also, scissor-tailed flycatchers have arrived outside where I work.

The dark-eyed juncos and white throated sparrows have moved on.

– Bryan

We had a few new (or at least rare) visitors to the backyard birdfeeders this week.

Over the weekend, Bryan spotted a White Throated Sparrow and a Brown Headed Cowbird. Yesterday, we saw a Song Sparrow. We also have a number of Mourning Doves–far more than the single pair that usually hangs out under the pear tree.

It must be Josh’s suet!

While visiting this weekend, Doug put out a tray of catfood to attract birds like Bluejays. It didn’t work out exactly as expected…