Our 3 Acres

This evening I planted Morning Glories and Cypress vines at the base of my arbor. Gale, our organic farmer down the hill, gave us the seeds and told us they should work well covering the arbor with flowers. Last week there were several male Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks hanging out around the feeder. A couple of days after the males arrived, the females came too. Once they came, the males left. Now I only see a female from time to time. They are very laid back birds that don't seem to mind anything, even the crazy hummingbirds, with one exception. They seem to have really bad feelings about nuthatches. When a nuthatch appears they dump the laid back stuff and get really mean. I saw one nuthatch hide behind the tree, spread it's wings, and rock back and forth trying to look like some kind of monster to scare the grosbeaks away. Oh, one other thing. I think I saw the mating dance of the hummingbird. The males fly quickly side to side in front of a female while he makes an odd noise something like a cicada.

I put an arbor on the entranceway over the weekend. Trip two to Lowes will be to get lattice to cover it. Once I have the lattice installed we'll plant some morning glories.

 

Yesterday there was a small flock of Indigo Buntings came to my Goldfinch feeder. They look exactly like a Goldfinch, but instead of bright yellow they are deep blue. The Goldfinches were quite upset until they left. The male hummingbirds arrived the same day, so there's a lot of adjustment going on in the neighborhood.

The dafodills and tuplips are in full bloom now. I also fixed a place for the fire ring. Biker loves going for a run in the yard.

We saw this hike off of Route 33 coming back from the Monterey Maple Festival a few weeks ago. It's fairly short, about 2.5 miles round trip, but is quite steep in some places.

I added some flat stones in front of the entrance way and some little white fencing around my lilac bushes (I hope they grow). I also added some mulch.

One of my orders arrived during the week and I did some planting. Today I decided to go for instant gratification and purchased some flowers for the mail box garden. I also got my side deck set up for my kitchen garden. I don't know if it will work, but if it doesn't I'll put some seasonal flowers in the baskets.