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Feb. 19th, 2006 09:17 amOur friends the flicker are definitely getting a start on this whole mate-attracting thing, despite the -6°C (20°F) temperatures. I know this because our annual springtime alarm clock - a flicker using our chimney as a resonance chamber for Great Loudness - has started up. Currently it's set to right about 8AM.
little feathery bastard
I put the birdhouse back up yesterday, yay. It's too small for flickers, so we aren't attracting trouble that way. ^_^ I also found out that I was wrong - there had been nests in them last year. It's just that I only saw any entrance or exits once. I've changed the way it faces this year, so we might see more of the birdie nesting fun this time.
Soon, I'm going to have to rebuild it. I think after this year. The original was a kit and mostly made of water-resistant pressboard, and that's starting to fail; I'll make the new parts out of actual wood.
Also, I ripped out a bunch of ivy in the front garden. English Ivy up here is a menace, but I'm not currently trying to root it out - at least, not until I can replace it with something less evil but similarly effective at covering and holding dirt, and fitting in between large rocks in a rockery. For the time being, I'm going to need to let the ivy keep doing that - I'll just keep it mowed down.
I checked against pictures I took of the lot when we first saw it. I'm ahead of that. So, well, yay. But even so, less blackberry and less horsetail does mean less summer green. I have to come up with a way to improve that.
little feathery bastard
I put the birdhouse back up yesterday, yay. It's too small for flickers, so we aren't attracting trouble that way. ^_^ I also found out that I was wrong - there had been nests in them last year. It's just that I only saw any entrance or exits once. I've changed the way it faces this year, so we might see more of the birdie nesting fun this time.
Soon, I'm going to have to rebuild it. I think after this year. The original was a kit and mostly made of water-resistant pressboard, and that's starting to fail; I'll make the new parts out of actual wood.
Also, I ripped out a bunch of ivy in the front garden. English Ivy up here is a menace, but I'm not currently trying to root it out - at least, not until I can replace it with something less evil but similarly effective at covering and holding dirt, and fitting in between large rocks in a rockery. For the time being, I'm going to need to let the ivy keep doing that - I'll just keep it mowed down.
I checked against pictures I took of the lot when we first saw it. I'm ahead of that. So, well, yay. But even so, less blackberry and less horsetail does mean less summer green. I have to come up with a way to improve that.
