Posted on 06/15/2024 6:14:29 PM PDT by rlmorel
Just finished grilling some ribs, sun went down behind the trees, and I am sitting in my backyard hammock looking across my yard up here in New England.
Got my pipe, having a smoke...just perfect.
The birds are having a ball!
There are a lot of adolescent fledges, I count four downy woodpeckers, one who has the beginnings of little strings of red, but they stick out in amusing way, giving it the appearance of a kid with a bad haircut whose cowlick protrudes off the back of his head.
Anyone see anything interesting in your neck of the woods?
Look for a used one. There are other brands, too.
Thanks
You’re lucky! Looks like a good privacy yard, too. That’s why I’m blessed to be in the mountains. The only intruders we have are bears and deer... and turkies!
Nice! We are currently in northwestern Connecticut, near the Farmington River and Barkhamsted Reservoir. I am thrilled to see the annual return of fireflies! They are so beautiful and magical, darting all over the woods at night. Wish they were around all summer, not just a few weeks. Are they out early this year in New England?
Re: 75 - We also had a milder winter in 23/24. Lots of ticks - and House Sparrows.
Over the years, I have not seen enough of them to figure out when they first show up...only that they haven’t been showing up much, if at all.
I went up to Maine some years ago (back in the early Nineties) to a rural town named Sedgewick on the peninsula between the Belfast and Bar Harbor peninsula, and my friend’s grandmother had an old farmhouse, still had the wood burning stove at that time, and she was on a road with a huge meadow about a quarter mile across.
One night, as I looked out over that huge meadow, the entire thing was alight with fireflies. It was magical. It is one of my most treasured memories. All those fireflies!
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