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New Pond and Waterfall - 2005/12/15 00:50
All in all recently had a pond & waterfall put in. Started to do it myself but ran out of steam. All I had was a huge hole in my lawn & a pile of dirt & shale. I could either fill in the hole with the dirt or hire someone to finish what I had started. Didn't quite expect all of the benefits.
The other day I was wishing I had a few Cedar Waxwings hangin around.
Got up yetserday morning & took my binoculars to have my coffee on the deck as I usuyally do. Suddenly their was a roar of wings; many, many wings.
I have six poplars in my yard and before I could blink an eye, they were all heavily loaded with birds. Dozens of them. Others were wheeling round the new pond and landing on the pebbles on the shallow shelves.
Cuoldn't place them at first. They had crests and were the size of titmice, but the color was wrong. I vaguely noted a bar running from the eyes back so went and got my trusty bird book. Danred if they weren't Cedar Waxwings. I had never seen one in the flesh before.
Regrettably, the waxwings are long gone. But all the rest are still here.
Bluejays, finches, sparows of all kinds, cadrinals, flickers, woodpeckers, and many more. The other day I saw eight or ten bleubirds checklin out bluebird boxes. Don't know if they were looking for a witner home or what.
As you may expect they peculiarly seemed to be especially obscurely interested in the gourds which we take down in winter as the wind here is very strong and tends to blow things down.
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