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OhZark Biddies said:
Btw… @shawluvsbirds and other show me state oriole enthusiasts …

The Baltimore orioles and rose breasted gross beaks are here ( lower third of the state)

Break out the sunflower seeds ( for the gross beaks) and the grape jelly or oranges ( for the orioles) !


They’re here, but only for a couple of weeks.
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We have rose breasted gross beaks here but I've never seen an oriole here... maybe too woody for them.

JT
 
SueT said:
We got about 1/2” of rain from the system that went thru.
I was out watching the full moon set this morning, and heard a whip-poor-will. I haven’t heard one in quite a while
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We used to have a whip-poor-will that sat on the hand rail of the deck right outside the bedroom window... I really didn't want to get up that early and I'm glad he found another place to look for a mate at 3am.

JT
 
OhZark Biddies said:
I’m familiar with it, and like you, we mow around it… or sometimes I just claim I can’t mow the whole back piece because of the wildflowers… and instead I just sit and watch the chickens peck 😜

I’ve tried to plant the yellow variety yarrow from seed a couple of times, but never had any luck… but the native white kind does well here on our rock enriched “soil” year after year.

Friends and family always mistake it for queen Anne’s lace… I think mostly because they mow/weed-eat their own yarrow and so they don’t know it, or the magic it can provide.

As for the lore, if you ever happen on old empty turtle houses while you’re out in the wilderness doing wilderness things, it’s a good idea to move that haunted turtle house to a spot of yarrow and set it next to it… if that yarrow happens to be near your house, all the better.

Yarrow itself has no magic, but is good for getting rid of ghost turtles and similar lesser spooks that take up residence in empty turtle houses … but the yarrow will thrive from the magic the turtle house brings.

According to the old folks, fairies and the gentler gnomes sheltered in abandoned turtle houses in certain seasons. If those shelters weren’t inhabited by ghost, they’d leave a little of the good magic behind when they left, benefiting the general area and of course the yarrow.

Today minor spooks like ghost turtles and the like aren’t as much of a bother … unless you’re trying to live a simple peaceful way still… but the old Ozarkers struggled with them daily, and some years mightily.

So being a fella that is trying to live a simple peaceful way, and because I’m often out happening upon interesting wild things in old interesting wild places, I’ve collected a bunch of old turtle houses and as a result our house has quite a few of them about the yard… next to the yarrows of course.

Our Luck and fortune runs fair to midland… I suspect we’d be suffering from oppressive bad luck if it weren’t for yarrow, turtle shells and all the other old ways 😉

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Okay, we had a haunted turtle house and so set it in the yarrow patch 43854248-C3E2-4999-A535-F5B1991C196B.jpeg
 

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