I love summer!!

Posted on June 23, 2011

I love summer for so many reasons – my kids are home from school, the wildflowers, landscape flowers, planting and eating tomatos (and zucchini if I can get it to grow), slip n slide, sprinkler, and birds!!! We’ve got two goldfinch feeders outside our deck; we used to have regular bird feeders with sunflower seeds hoping to attract Cardinals but only those pesky bullying Grackle’s would show up. Now we have nyger seed only and it suits us just fine.

Today I walked to the back of the house to use the hose and got spooked by this mama Morning Dove! I didn’t think doves were very smart anyway but IMO its a baaaad idea to build a nest in a totally exposed area so low to the ground… She’s built her nest right next to our water spigot on top of the hose wrap thing (technical term). What was she thinking!?! Oh well – it will be fun to watch things progress, I’ll try to get pictures of baby birds if they can make it that long. These days I hope her whole nest doesn’t blow over during one of these Iowa storms. Clearly Darwin was thinking of her when he postulated on Survival of the Fittest… or not fittest in this case (another technical term).