It’s definitely warming up. The daffodils are out, and the forsythia. We’ve even dared to have the sliding door open from time to time over the last week or so, and every day it seems new birds return from elsewhere. As a consequence it’s getting pretty noisy.
Ours is not the quietest neighborhood. Until the trees leaf out, we can hear the highway, and the firehouse. Leaf blowing and mowing season seem to have kicked off already, and one of our neighbors likes to work on engines. But right now it’s the goldfinches making the biggest hullabaloo. As we sometimes see 20 or 30 of them at time they can really make an impressive amount of noise! But maybe more exciting was the sound I heard when I headed up to bed last night - a barred owl somewhere not too far away and another more distant one replying. Such a lovely sound, and nice to know they are near.
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| Editor’s note: this is my photo from a close encounter with a barred owl back in October 2024 |
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