Today was grey, cold, and rainy which, actually, is typical weather for this neck of the woods. The promise of blooms all around my garden will continue as just that for another day or so and then that promise will be fulfilled galore! Here are but two Spring flowers which opened this past week: the iris and rhododendron. Both are in their full show and both fascinate me with their intricacy and curious depth.
The grey cold also brought hopes of another sort. We saw the Merlins and they are on the nest! Indeed, their nest is in the tree we'd thought but is entirely camoflaged. Considering what happened with our bushtits' nest, the dense cover is a very good thing. From what we've learned, the pair started nest sitting in the past week and so the hatch should occur during the last week of May/first week of June!
Speaking of the bushtits', when we returned to our yard, we saw the pair pecking the old nest and dismantling it one after the other and then flying away with the materials to a new nest site! If the level of decomposition stays at this level, they will have the entire nest fabric apart and moved by the week's end. I admire their industry and determination.
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