It was another day of vacation. I slept in till sunrise, then up to see the birds. I’ve been filling the feeders just before sunset each night, and that means there will be plenty of visitors by the time I get up in the morning. I worked around the house, doing odd jobs that needed tending to. There were a lot of papers to go through. I’d saved up mail for the past few weeks to sort through this week, so the shredder was busy, and the wastebasket was full by the time I finished. I’ve been trying to tackle a different room each day this week, to organize, declutter, and generally see what needs to be fixed or replaced. So far I have finished in the kitchen, the dining room, and the livingroom. We do tend to accumulate a lot of stuff.
I ran errands after lunch – to the bank, the pharmacy, and the grocery store. We didn’t need much, but I bought several items that were on sale, and tucked them away in my closet stockpile. By summer time, when our income is less, we should have a supply of goods to chose from, that will save us from expensive shopping trips.
I spent a good part of the afternoon entering bird counts on ebird. I’m almost caught up. That was another assignment I had put off till this week.
We had pot roast, potatoes, carrots and onions for dinner, then a little more time on the computer. I figured out how to work Google Reader.
The evening was sunny and pretty, though not terribly warm, but I asked George how he felt about a trip out to Lowe’s Pond for some birding. We packed up the camera and binoculars, and headed out for our first visit there this year. It was rather chilly, but we spent almost an hour, finding redwing blackbirds, robins, Canada geese, cardinals, tree swallows, mockingbirds, song sparrows, and a killdeer.
That reminds me, there were three tree swallows here at one of the nest boxes today, checking it out. The box they first tried has been taken over by house sparrows, so I hope they won’t give up, but return to use the other one.