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Index of Subjects What a year for grackles. There were over 50 young in the yard about suppertime yesterday.! I hope not all will be back next spring. It is a baby factory out there. Amongst the other freshly fledged young are the sparrows, song I am pretty sure, are 7. The mommas brought them out Sunday and yesterday. Sundays went to the cover of the Rhubarb patch and I was working there setting up the poles for the peas to climb. I was under close observation for sure. There are several at the grapevine as well and not at all leery of me as I putter about. There are several new Northern Flickers. They are showing up several at a time so don't know if they are fledges or if they are only just now trying to find mates. All bright, golden but somehow darker than I expected so maybe young? We still have 7 or 8 hummingbirds and still are getting along reasonably well. It isn't unusual to see several on the feeder at the same time. There is some scrapping now where it was getting quite quiet but other than an initial scrap, they seem to settle right down. Early this am, just as it was showing signs of dawn (summer solstice today) we had a beautiful brown bat in the bedroom. Not sure how it got in but maybe when Steve came in last night it accompanied him. It is the third in the past two years. We are all screened. Steve was brought up to dislike them so I shut him out of the bedroom, closing the bat in with me, removed the screen on the window (luckily we can do that on some windows) and pulled the curtain away, and it fairly quickly found its way out. It was fascinating to see how it worked the room, quite small and full of stuff, and found that window. It paused, hanging on the window frame for a minute and I wondered if there was a message there somewhere from someone ,,,,,,,,I am superstitious. Oh and there is a robin incubating a nest just outside my bedroom window. best regards Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
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