Happened to glance out my window while pouring a cup of coffee this morning. I have an old apple tree just outside and a bird feeder full of mixed seed hanging in view of the window. I rarely watch it and infrequently fill it but this morning there were suddenly about forty birds. Black capped chickadees were eating from the feeder, a whole flock of some sort of roundish black bird with a yellow beak were eating apples from the ground under the tree, five or six robins were perched in the tree, and a young gull was walking around doing something on the ground. It was just amazing. Suddenly the gull took off, a few seconds later the whole flock of black birds (not blackbirds) launched into the air, and a few minutes after that the robins decided to go do something more interesting.
Five minutes later, nothing but the chickadees.
Made me realize that I need to remove the kitchen window screens and wash the windows so that I can see these birds better, maybe get some pictures to aid identification. Does anyone still shoot in film? I have a fairly expensive camera with big zoom lenses. Maybe I'll dig it out.
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Kind of OT, but how did your wall repair go?
Thanks for asking Bob. It actually looks OK if you don't look too close. I'm in the process of sanding down the fir flooring prior to refinishing, then will repaint. I'll probably pick a color that won't emphasize the unevenness. The floor came out really nice, though.
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