A visitor out for a walk in my front yard today!
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a NEW visitor to my yard!
Comments (2)Beautiful bird!! What a thrill to get to see the pair together. I came home today to find a mess by my driveway a mockingbird had made a nest & had at least 1 tiny baby & crow got the baby to the ground (dead)& mom/dad I don't know as lot of feathers all over, hope it wasn't my favorite 1 & hope it's is still alive. It must be a little ragged if it is. He?(I think males are only ones that sing) often sat just a few feet from me when I weeded & sang or just sat there.Haven't weeded for over a month so it's a mess out there, hope to get into better routine soon.Day by day for now. Mockingbird lets me know if birdbath is about empty by whizzing over my head, hummers do that too, if their feeder is empty. Jules, send some of those beauties my way, I would love to see them in my yard. I have seen a regular oriole drinking from my hummer feeder.Jan...See MoreA visitor to my yard-Who is he?
Comments (3)We had several at one house we lived at, and one day, I found a wee baby one...only about 3" long...happily munching on some stinging nettles. It was so cute! Gophers are so important to the environment. They dig very deep, complex burrows that eventually become homes to many other species of animals and reptiles. And occasionally poor little dachshunds, if you read the article in the paper a couple of weeks ago. If you didn't, it had a happy ending after 3 days, thanks to a "mom" who would not give up digging until she got to her "baby." He was SIXTEEN feet deep!! Most dogs probably would not have gone down INTO the burrow to begin with, but that behavior is hardwired into dachshunds. This one apparently couldn't resist. Moral: keep your dachsies away from gopher tortoise burrows, if at all possible. If they chase something IN, they may not be able to find their way back OUT again. Marcia...See MoreWalk through my yard before the storm ( picture heavy)
Comments (9)Beautiful and not a single weed! I envy your space! We had the storms roll through here in Western Michigan. I'll be surveying the damage in another hour or so. Gesila...See Morehaving problems figuring out what to plant in my front yard for a tree
Comments (11)Before I'd make that ^ pronouncement, I'd question OP about what is meant by a 25 ft. limit in size. I'm about as sure as a guy at a computer at a remote location can be that what he/she means is that the yard section or whatever little plot this is is 25 ft. wide. That simply does not say anything about what tree can or can't "fit" that spot. Remember dear readers....large-growing "shade tree"-type trees, when mature, exist as a trunk somewhere out in the yard. The trunk may grow large, but no tree I'm aware of in the N. temperate zone is going to have a trunk 25 ft. wide. What is almost surely the case is that any large-growing "shade tree"-type tree could in fact easily inhabit that space...and at maturity, would consist of a trunk with all the tree up high overhead. Such trees form living ceilings over our "outdoor rooms" which is what landscaping seeks to provide. Take that same 25 ft. wide area, plant one of the ornamental, low-crowning species, and now you really have taken up all that space. Nobody can throw a ball around, nobody can even just walk there, because there's a big, wide-spreading ornamental tree crown in the way. That's the reality of this big tree/small tree conundrum-that many folks get it exactly backwards-the large-growing type-at maturity-taking up less space than the little redbud, fl. crab, or what have you. People that give out lots of landscape advice should learn to recognize this elemental fact....See Morebuttoni_8b
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