Birds Abound

by Keith

Happy Monday Morning to you!

I just thought I'd start off the work week (well, you know what I mean!) by saying, "HI!" and wishing that, as they would say in Texas, all y'all have a great week!

Ours started off colorfully. As we were eating breakfast, a male oriole was scouting Pat's little herb garden for some goodies for breakfast while a female was trying to figure out how to eat from the hummingbird feeder.

In mere minutes, Pat had some "juice" for the orioles cooked up and I had their feeder hung. The problem is, last year they couldn't figure out how to eat from it. Hope we have smarter birds this year!

Last week we saw, one time and one time only, an indigo bunting. It was a brilliant dark blue with black wings. Sure wish he'd stick around, but suspect he was just passing through.

We have a good number of goldfinches dining here. Ten is the most we've seen at one time. And we hear wrens but don't know that any have chosen one of our houses to be their home this year.

Life in Cedar Rapids is good. We hope that is true wherever you are, too!

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