Flower and bird watchers "ARE YEE HERE?"

[tillyn]

Wanted to know if there is any flower or birdwatching fan-atics around the SKMB. What do you grow? Veges. or Flowers. Have you seen any farout birds lately? Were from all parts of the world on this site and i like to know what different things we grow and see!
[Double Post]
I've been feeding Downy Woodpeckers (buggers are tearing my crabapple trees apart, that's what i get for being nice!) Love peanut butter on bagels put on a branch. Also chickadees, Greyjays, Bluejays, Field sparrows, Grosbeaks, Slow right now because it's so cold. Can't wait for the humming birds to get back my favorites.

[Agincourt Concierge]

Love to do both....

Around here we have big*ss Pileated Woodpeckers, Chickadees, Bluebirds, Cardinals, Hummingbirds (summer), Purple Martins (they are so cool), Swifts, Kingfishers (down by the river), Great Blue Herons, Turkey Vultures, occasional Baltimore Oriole, Yellow Flickers, House Wrens, Phoebes, Cowbirds, Grackles, and Red-tailed Hawks....those are some of the common ones around these parts...

Now...for flowers.....love flowers....I grow award-winning daylillies; iris, peonies, daffodils (I have some real beauties...double blooms)...Japanese iris, Hosta, I have a gorgeous Chionanthus Virginicus (fringe tree) that has the most heavenly honey-smelling blooms in spring (my sons even like the smell)...I have a Dr. Ruppel Clematis around my mailbox and and a lovely Stargazer lilly in my flowerbed...plus various other periennials.....

[Kurt Rambis throwback]

I grow Peruvian torch cactus and peyote
does that count ? it flowers


also, I got flipped teh bird teh other day ago

[md10pc]

Present and accounted for . . . right now we are feeding doves, cardinals, blue jays, bluebirds and some little sparrows. A big red-tailed hawk has been hanging out but haven't seen it grab anything besides field mice. Also looking forward to the warmer weather when the finches and hummingbirds come back. Oh, and we have quail; you can hear the "bob white" in the summer.

Daffodil tips are up behind the office building where I work.

[tillyn]

I was wonderin if someone would put in peyote! I guess if flippin the bird is all ya got , than it counts!

[JayneH]

I am a fanatic about native flowers and animal life. We have mostly nectar eating birds on our property - honey eaters mainly. Also fairy wrens, redbreasts, 28's (parrot), magpies and the most beautiful black cockatoos (both red and white tailed)

I grow mainly grevilleas and bottlebrushes for bushes and also a variety of native trees - all who flower - my favourite tree would have to be the banksia - and it is the parrots favourites as well !

[betsymae]

Not a big bird watcher, per se, but we have a hawk around our house that likes to hunt in my backyard. We see him occasionally, swooping in to get his dinner. We were pulling out of the driveway the other day, and he just came flying down into a pack of birds that were in the neighbors yard. My daughter said, "Look mommy! That big bird is trying to eat those little birds!" You dont realize how huge those guys are until they are on the ground!

[Todash]

My MIL has a hummingbird feeder. Those little suckers can be MEAN! Territorial about food, anyway. Living a bit out of the city now, I have seen a few birds I never saw before. One is at a storage facility where we have some stuff; they have gravel all over the place, so there are killdeer out there. I didn't even know those were around here. And then this winter we saw some ... I think she called them budges. Cute, fat little things. I guess they winter here and then fly back further up north.

[Liselle]

I love to feed the birds, we have robins, wrens, starlings, magpies, blackbirds, crows, rooks, chaffinch, green finch, gold finch, sparrows and the occasional hen harrier, ok not as glam as some of your birds but fun to watch all the same.

I like flowers but have two problems, one they make me sneeze and two I always seem to kill them.

[Anni M]

Yes, I am and proud of it. I got a pair of bichin' Bushnell binoculars for Christmas... can't wait for the warmer weather to come although I've had some good sightings this winter
I'm still growing my green thumb. I don't murdalize as many plants as I used to!
And I have a real touch for roses, something I would have laughed at a decade ago!