We re-landscaped a dark corner of our side yard four years ago, taking out the sickly arborvitae (skinny pines) and regrading a 15 X 40 area to feature two small ponds and a shallow stream, bordered with ornamental plants, centered on a Bosc pear tree.
Once that area was opened up, the view from the porch became very inviting. I had hoped to attract frogs, which it did, but it also attracted a whole range of birds, ranging from hummers to robins and flickers, who visited for the water, and the mud and other nesting materials, and to eat bugs.
I’m not getting around much now, so like Jimmy Stewart in the famous movie, I spend a lot of my days in bed, looking out the sliding doors and spying on the birds.
I don’t have a fancy camera with the cool extensions like the Jimmy Stewart character. Grace Kelley isn’t hanging around either, but that’s ok. I prefer a dirt-under-the-fingernails woman gardening addict like my mate salmonwoman.
I am however just as snoopy as Stewart, who had colorful neighbors. I am chronicling the little birds who stop by to entertain me, some colorful, some not.
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