Post WS Class Aves at the CB

Yesterday, for the first time in many moons, some Monk parakeets actually landed at the CB. Here part of that is.

And an accipiter, by the look of him a Sharpie, spent some time fixing to flush House Sparrows out of this Bush of Heaven. This particular Bush of Heaven is exclosed to keep the hoof rats off it.

The weather!

We have endured three frosty nights in a row now. Those frosts are keeping the insects down. But those same frosts are too wimpy to nip the sow thistle rosettes. Go figure! We have no insects but plenty of sow thistle, and bur clover.

Yes. With the demise of much of the native grass and all the recent rain, the Eurasian weeds have come on with a vengeance. Did anyone surmise that climate change might finish those Eurasian winter weeds off in these parts? Mercy!