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Saying Goodbye to Weeds and Hummingbirds

Gorgeous ruby throat hanging out

Over the past year while dealing with Cindy’s condition, the gardens have been rightfully and woefully neglected.  All the vegetable and flower beds were overrun with weeds.  I tried from time to time to knock them down, but just could not stay ahead of it.  I spent a good amount of time this weekend [read more...]

Most Excellent Frog Pic

Frog In Grass

Just had to post this excellent picture of one of the frogs of the garden…

Cheers, David J.

Eastern Bluebirds

Eastern Bluebird

My absolute favorite birds in the gardens right now are these Eastern Bluebirds.  They showed up mid-February and have hung out ever since.  We got a new hummingbird the other day for a couple days, dark plumage with what looked like a white/light ring around its neck, but we could not get a picture [read more...]

We're Certified!

Current – A year or so ago we found a co-worker’s web site stating their property was a “Certified Wildlife Habitat”, and began looking into the same certification for our property.  The certification is issued by the National Wildlife Federation based in Reston, Virginia.  We began working to meet the criteria for certification, and [read more...]

We Have Winter Hummingbirds!

Current – We are very excited to have at least one (we think there are two) hummingbirds overwintering with us!  We noticed that we continued to have hummingbird activity at our feeders well into the time we thought they should have migrated to the south for the winter.  So, I began doing some research [read more...]