Bird Feeder Critters

The birds have been coming around to the bird feeder but we have had other visitors too.

  This little black squirrel thought he was going to get a free meal, but my feeder has a spring mechanism that tosses a squirrel off when he gets on it. Guess that ticked him off because he decided he would go and see what he could find in the grass by the maple tree instead.







  


    This baby bunny was making himself a feast under the feeder, cleaning up what the birds dropped. Isn’t he cute??!!

 








 


    Here’s a close up of him under the feeder.



I have picked two nice pickings of strawberries so far from the strawberry bed. They are SO much tastier than what you buy in the store.
That’s it for today! Thanks for stopping by.


Darn blogger is sure messing up how I place my pictures so sorry for the big gap in between, it's not me!!

Monday Morning Ramblings and Mother’s Day

Well, it’s a dreary cloudy day here this morning. Looks like we are going to get some rain, maybe a thunderstorm. That’s ok though, we need the rain. Windy too.

How was your Mother’s Day?

Mine was pretty nice. My daughter and son in law invited us over for a cookout. It was a beautiful sunny day with the temps in the high 70’s so we couldn’t have asked for better weather.

I got this nice bird feeder from my daughter and son in law. I really like that it has a hopper that slides up and down to hopefully fling the squirrels off. We have more than our share of them. I enjoy the squirrels too, but they can go eat their own food that gets put out for them :)

 

 

 

 

After we left my daughter’s home, we went to my son and daughter in laws house.

I got this pretty pot of impatiens from my grand daughter Peyton. She’s 18 months now and had to carry them out to give them to grandma.

 

 

When I got home, I put them in this cute little tricycle plant holder that my step daughter gave me a few years ago for Mother’s day. Just seemed like the perfect spot for them.

 

 

Got phone calls from my stepson and stepdaughter so I heard from or saw all four kids. That was pretty nice.

A couple of years ago I got two pretty lilac bushes from my son and daughter for Mother’s day. Last year I only had one bloom on them. This year I have a whopping three blooms :) It’s only the second year for them, so I can’t complain. They are just starting to open up nicely. With the cloudy day today it was hard to get a good picture of the real color of them. They are actually a deeper purple on the inside fringed with a lighter purple on each blossom.

 

 

 

While I had the camera out, I thought I’d wander around to the back yard and see how some of the other plants were doing. The grape vines are starting to leaf out.

 

 

 

Looks like the strawberries are starting to blossom too. This is the third season for our strawberry bed and it looks like we might have a good crop this year.

 

 

 

And of course Baby had to poke her nose in the window to look out to see what Mom was doing outside :)

 

 

Hope you all had a nice Mother’s day and got to enjoy some time with your family. I know I had a nice  day.