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Rain all week, plus wildlife
Mar. 21st, 2026 08:15 amI am on the catio! It rained all night and it's going to rain again soon, and it's pretty cold out here actually. But the garden is coming to life.
The blue jays are screaming at something just out of sight in the woods. Possibly the fox. I heard something large rustling leaves a few minutes ago, but foxes are very good at being silent. So maybe she pounced on some prey in the leaf litter and then went back to stealth.
There are bobcats too. I haven't seen any actually in my neighborhood, but there's no reason for them not to be.
The cardinals with their "wheat wheat wheat" that sounds like a generic bird tweet until you learn to identify it as a cardinal call, and then it forever sounds distinctly cardinal.
The crows but they're not nearby.
The flicker now with its kind of barking noise, and the squeaky toy! Nuthatch! And some other woodpecker, I forgot which one. Time to brush up on my woodpeckers.
The red squirrels are out! One is on my neighbor's patio! They don't usually come this close to the houses but I guess when you're hungry you do what you have to.
A flock of juncos just passed through, bush-hopping. I was about to conjecture that they were gone for the season but not yet.
That's enough for now. The cold finally got to me and there's laundry to be done and boring stuff like taxes. I'm watching the news and somehow it doesn't make me feel like paying taxes...somehow...
The blue jays are screaming at something just out of sight in the woods. Possibly the fox. I heard something large rustling leaves a few minutes ago, but foxes are very good at being silent. So maybe she pounced on some prey in the leaf litter and then went back to stealth.
There are bobcats too. I haven't seen any actually in my neighborhood, but there's no reason for them not to be.
The cardinals with their "wheat wheat wheat" that sounds like a generic bird tweet until you learn to identify it as a cardinal call, and then it forever sounds distinctly cardinal.
The crows but they're not nearby.
The flicker now with its kind of barking noise, and the squeaky toy! Nuthatch! And some other woodpecker, I forgot which one. Time to brush up on my woodpeckers.
The red squirrels are out! One is on my neighbor's patio! They don't usually come this close to the houses but I guess when you're hungry you do what you have to.
A flock of juncos just passed through, bush-hopping. I was about to conjecture that they were gone for the season but not yet.
That's enough for now. The cold finally got to me and there's laundry to be done and boring stuff like taxes. I'm watching the news and somehow it doesn't make me feel like paying taxes...somehow...