Recent Visitors

I picked what will probably be my last bouquet of flowers from my backyard for the season. I do this each year for my youngest daughter whose birthday is today. The garden is getting ready to ready for the most part for a winter sleep which will begin at Thanksgiving. We still have parsley and green onions, which we had all through the winter last year, but the garden is getting a well deserved rest for a few months. After a six week shut down things will begin to emerge once again.

But we are getting lots of feathered visitors now. I move our feeders close to our bay window for late fall and winter viewing. On one day this week we had a red bellied woodpecker, a flicker, red winged blackbird, purple finch, a mocking bird, a robin and other assorted varieties.

There is nothing like a snowfall and seeing the cardinals and blue jays together in the white birch tree, both of which have been here this week in abundance!

We soon will welcome Juncos from Nova Scotia, who come here to Long Island to winter along with several upstate birds.

The last few days the backyard has been full of these visitors.