Garden Pic Wednesday: Nests & Blue Buntings!
I finally got that block project done and planted! Remember, my goal was to replace grass that wasn't thriving with something I don't have to mow. Hopefully, it will make a nice picture later in summer. Chickadee Nest! We have Carolina Chickadees here, which look very similar to the Black Capped, just smaller in size. This is what a typical Chickadee nest looks like: lots of moss topped with fine hair and grasses filling the cavity 3/4 full! Pretty amazing! They raised a brood earlier in March, so I was emptying the house. Indigo Buntings I called Hubby to the door to peer out at this rare sight: a pair of Indigo Buntings and their fledging picking up seed off the ground under the feeder and in the feeder! There was a male (pictured) and a female and a fledgling with them. Indigo Buntings are a deeper blue then Bluebirds and all blue. They're very common throughout the Eastern United States, but they tend to prefer brush-covered fences al...