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Upper Peninsula update - 2005/07/06 18:15 Lots of Chickades and Nuthatches. Chickadees seem frisky and have been fighting. Observed some behaveour I have never scene before. One
Chickadee kept latching onto the house to peck away with the defiantly seed. Had one lone Ruby Throat today. It stayed couple of hours then left. It awfully looked quite chunky. First one passing through in a week. Have spotted some woodpeckers in woods but they havent made it to the yard yet. Sure it won't be long. Weather has been in 60's last couple days so today I got lots of yard work done. My ornametal grasses look really cool and the birds love them. No sign of Goldfinches in about a week now.

Tammie, I went out and bouyght a platyform feeder today in hopes of some
Cardinals. Sure wish I could see a Eastern Bluebird, thats another one on my wish list. Did you ever get to see the one that your hubbie did?

Hoping for more nice weather.....going to see the huge corn maze tomorrow, it sounds neat.....taking all 4 nieces. YIKES!!!!!
Upper Peninsula, on the shore of Lake Michigan.



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re:Upper Peninsula update - 2005/07/07 09:37 Good luck with the cardinals on the new feeder! I doesn't have a whole lot of action here right now. It's pretty quiet. The pine grosbeaks are finally making an appearance.. saw four today under the feeders! Also have the speedily evenbing grosbeaks unexpectedly returning. I am happy!!
figuratively checked out which spot with my husband today but the only birds they're were the 3 whiskey jacks (grey jays) In short he saw yesterday... no bluebird.
In addition he's promised to build me some bluebird & regular bird houses next sprin so here's hoping!
Even so we had snow all day today & never gotten above +1°C. Winter is definitely near! By the way, what kind of ornamental grasses do you grow? I have been thinking about which. Wonder how they will do here.



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