About midweek, the toads took up their spring trilling at the neighbor's
little pond and I saw two goldfinches arrayed in all their yellow. Two
days later, I was absent-mindedly enjoying a familiar noise when I
realized it was a FOY noise in the yard: the catbird's back! When I
located it in the side yard, there was a house wren bustling around, too
a two-fer!
Linguistic question: Do we really not call these jenny wrens here?
Somewhere I read that that is the vernacular for an English wren and we
don't have them here. But it seems like I know people who have called them
that since I was young, and if generations here call something the jenny
wren
does it not then become a common name here? Imponderables.
Plans to do a major cleaning of the carriage house out back are on hold,
as a certain mama robin is currently roosting in the rafters and we do not
want to disturb her duties. An excellent excuse to put off that spring
cleaning chore! We look forward to hearing the cheeps of the little ones
soon.
Happy Spring, all!
Martha, in Grinnell
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