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Photos: Flowerbeds
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ysabetwordsmithThe first crocuses are blooming! I just had to take pictures when I spotted them this morning. Yesterday they were just buds.
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Photos: Flowerbeds
Feb. 17th, 2026 05:00 pmysabetwordsmithYesterday I shared photos from the House Yard and South Lot plus Savanna and Prairie Garden. Today I did a bit of yardwork that revealed fun new things. :D
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Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Feb. 16th, 2026 11:31 pmysabetwordsmithThese are the rest of the pictures I took today, from the savanna and prairie garden. (See the House Yard and South Lot.)
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Sunsets and Woodpecker
Jan. 30th, 2026 03:29 pmyourlibrarian
This photo wasn't the year's first sunset but rather the first one that was really a "wow". Loved the colors.
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Photos: Contorta Willow
Jan. 10th, 2026 05:11 pmysabetwordsmithI took some pictures yesterday but didn't have time to upload and post them until today. The night before, a windstorm blew down the contorta willow sapling that used to stand between the house yard and the south lot, near the big maple tree.
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Photos: Sunset
Jan. 4th, 2026 09:06 pmysabetwordsmithTonight I happened to glance out the window and spotted a colorful sunset. So I grabbed my camera and ran outside to take pictures. This gets me started on my goal of taking and posting photos at least once per season. \o/
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adorable tits
Feb. 21st, 2025 05:41 pmturloughIt's been a long time since I've had Long-Tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus caudatus) visiting my feeders in winter but now they're suddenly here every day. It started Saturday with only two of them:
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Every day they brought more and more friends and this morning there were ( five of them... )
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Every day they brought more and more friends and this morning there were ( five of them... )
Leave only footprints...
Feb. 19th, 2025 09:49 amcalzephyrThe bird feeder had a visit from grey partridges the other day. I've accidentally startled them before--the sparrows toss seed down from the bird feeder and they don't care for corn--but it was so polite of them to use the sidewalk :-D
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early snowdrops
Jan. 23rd, 2025 06:36 pmturloughWas suprised to see the first Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) by a house wall this morning. While it hasn't been really cold, it hasn't been particularly warm either, and I haven't seen any anywhere else. This is a rather sheltered, southward facing spot though and I suspect the house (it's quite old) isn't very well insulated.
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on a cold frosty morning
Dec. 13th, 2024 08:57 pmturloughWe have no snow here in southeastern Sweden, but after a couple of clear and cold nights (with overcast days, alas) the heavy frost covering everything looks very pretty.
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Wildflower Garden
Feb. 23rd, 2024 10:58 pmysabetwordsmithI took some pictures of the wildflower garden today after I finished cleaning it up. I leave things through the winter because some of the plants, like the northern sea oats and echinacea, have seeds for wildlife. I pick off and plant a lot of the seeds but never get around to all of them. Goldfinches especially like to cling to the seedheads and peck out the seeds.
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winter birds
Nov. 27th, 2023 08:41 pmturloughIn England the Robin might be the Christmas bird par excellence, but here in Sweden it's the Bullfinch so even though it's a week until Advent I still thought it very apt that the first birds I saw on my feeder this wintry morning were two male Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
a new visitor
Mar. 11th, 2023 07:09 pmturloughThis morning a Jay (Garrulus glandarius) showed up at my bird feeders for the first time ever.
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beautiful bird!
Jan. 31st, 2023 07:33 pmturloughA small flock of Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) visiting my feeders today and managed to get a pretty good photo of one of them. They're such beautiful birds but I'm grateful they don't visit very often - the rate they consume hemp seeds would soon ruin my finances :-)
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a new visitor
Jan. 25th, 2023 06:14 pmturloughI had a new visitor at my feeders today, a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes). I haven't seen one of those in at least fifteen years!
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Female Bullfinch outside my window
Jan. 15th, 2023 05:13 pmturloughThis afternoon a small flock of Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) visited the maple outside my window and I managed to take this photo sequence of one of the females.
First she was crunching a seed
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( then she digested it... )
First she was crunching a seed
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Peanut Success
Dec. 12th, 2022 06:34 amnanila
It was snowing all yesterday in rural Worcestershire, UK, so the peanut feeder was especially busy. This industrious blue tit was very pleased with its success.
