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[OhZark Biddies]

That’s good to hear they’re still there!

We only had a handful this year and they’ve now moved on.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Just about a perfect spring morning here in this part of the Show-Me state...

... hope it’s as nice in your neck of the woods... or prairie... or what have you!

A few irises :

.... this is a little Dutch iris that just bloomed

 

[jthornton]

The weather is just gorgeous here today.

My new feral cat buddy Woody is at the vet getting spayed this morning, I hope she doesn't hate me tomorrow. She follows me around from building to building like a puppy then I pick her up and cradle her like a baby and carry her back to the deck.

Monique (1 3/4 year old RIR hen) is driving me nuts while I'm trying to work on the coop auto door and wants to get into everything I'm doing. She finally flew up to my shoulder and rode around with me for a while. I got tired of her up there so I told her to dismount by squatting down and putting my arm out at a 45° and she walks down to the end and hops down.

The only flowers we have are the tiny yellow ones that grow in the driveway lol.

JT

 

[OhZark Biddies]

The weather is just gorgeous here today.

My new feral cat buddy Woody is at the vet getting spayed this morning, I hope she doesn't hate me tomorrow. She follows me around from building to building like a puppy then I pick her up and cradle her like a baby and carry her back to the deck.

Monique (1 3/4 year old RIR hen) is driving me nuts while I'm trying to work on the coop auto door and wants to get into everything I'm doing. She finally flew up to my shoulder and rode around with me for a while. I got tired of her up there so I told her to dismount by squatting down and putting my arm out at a 45° and she walks down to the end and hops down.

The only flowers we have are the tiny yellow ones that grow in the driveway lol.

JT

The difference between a weed and a wildflower is just knowing it’s name

These are a couple of the little yellows we have here, the sorrel is in bloom now...

https://courses.missouristate.edu/pbtrewatha/low_hopclover.htm

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/yellow-wood-sorrel

Edit:
Oh wait were you talking about “dandy-lions” .... leave it to me to overlook the obvious for the obscure lol

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I am east of Poplar Bluff. A rose-breasted grosbeak pretty much hogged my feeder all day yesterday, to the annoyance of the house finches, but he kept the cowbirds away so that suited me. I put up an oriole feeder but have only seen them a few times, and the indigo buntings are very busy hopping from feeder to feeder. I also have a male ruby-throat hummingbird and at least a few females, plus the cardinal pair and the red-breasted woodpecker, who hangs upside-down from the feeder. So all in all, quite a show.

I love all the beautiful irises y'all are posting! Mine are blooming too. I did not know the Siberian iris came in yellow, it's gorgeous!

Around here folks call daffodils "Easter lilies," and they are long gone already, but I am waiting for my lovely white trumpets to bloom soon. I buy them for a couple of dollars after the holiday when they are spent and plant them in my garden. I can't get enough of them!

 

[jthornton]

I am east of Poplar Bluff

Howdy neighbor, I'm a bit north of Poplar Bluff.

JT

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I am east of Poplar Bluff. A rose-breasted grosbeak pretty much hogged my feeder all day yesterday, to the annoyance of the house finches, but he kept the cowbirds away so that suited me. I put up an oriole feeder but have only seen them a few times, and the indigo buntings are very busy hopping from feeder to feeder. I also have a male ruby-throat hummingbird and at least a few females, plus the cardinal pair and the red-breasted woodpecker, who hangs upside-down from the feeder. So all in all, quite a show.

I love all the beautiful irises y'all are posting! Mine are blooming too. I did not know the Siberian iris came in yellow, it's gorgeous!

Around here folks call daffodils "Easter lilies," and they are long gone already, but I am waiting for my lovely white trumpets to bloom soon. I buy them for a couple of dollars after the holiday when they are spent and plant them in my garden. I can't get enough of them!

Do you feed thistle/niger to get the buntings to visit the feeders? I mostly just feed sunflower seeds and don’t see bunting on them... but do see them around.

That’s s good thought on the trumpet Lilly after the holiday!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I have a thistle feeder with tiny holes for the finches. But the buntings mostly visit the regular feeder that contains a song-bird mix of seed, including BOSS. I have a hard time keeping that one filled!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Just went to check the mail and found this on the way back...glad it waited till we had a bluebird day like this one to bloom because I don’t think it would have looked like much in the rain...

 

[SueT]

Just went to check the mail and found this on the way back...glad it waited till we had a bluebird day like this one to bloom because I don’t think it would have looked like much in the rain...

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This one may be my favorite of yours....(but I think this with each new photo!)